Pictures: the zoo and the Kunstkammer
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schneefinkOn Monday aunt E. I went to the zoo. I hadn't been in ages, I almost forgot how fantastic the Schönbrunn zoo is. Now they have commentary for every public feeding about the animals, it's very interesting. We saw two different penguin feedings - they're so cute! Unfortunately the polar bears are currently out of town because they're rebuilding that part.
Hippo going swimming - very slowly at first, then with a big splash.
Oriental small-clawed otters being fed.
Baby elephant Iqhwa! She was born on September 4th and is the first baby elephant conceived via artificial insemination with frozen sperma. She's so adorable, she's not yet completely sure what to do with all her limbs yet and always sticks close to mama Tonga.
Yesterday we went to the museum of art history and visited the Kunstkammer (art chamber) that only reopened in March and that I'd never seen before. It's amazing. So much pretty stuff! I especially loved the bowls and cups cut from colorful stone, and also the crystal carafes, and the gold automatons, and everything else.
It was difficult to take good pictures because of the lighting. And sometimes I just forgot. Some I was too lazy to upload. So these are by no means representative, just some of my favorites.
A beautiful stone cut example, iirc by the Miseroni family working together with goldsmiths and emaille artists
Iirc, different artists but also created for Emperor Rudolph II, same with the next one.
Ivory flower vases.
There were a lot of ornamental never-for-use handwash bowl + jug combinations.
The building itself is also very pretty.
Hippo going swimming - very slowly at first, then with a big splash.
Oriental small-clawed otters being fed.
Baby elephant Iqhwa! She was born on September 4th and is the first baby elephant conceived via artificial insemination with frozen sperma. She's so adorable, she's not yet completely sure what to do with all her limbs yet and always sticks close to mama Tonga.
Yesterday we went to the museum of art history and visited the Kunstkammer (art chamber) that only reopened in March and that I'd never seen before. It's amazing. So much pretty stuff! I especially loved the bowls and cups cut from colorful stone, and also the crystal carafes, and the gold automatons, and everything else.
It was difficult to take good pictures because of the lighting. And sometimes I just forgot. Some I was too lazy to upload. So these are by no means representative, just some of my favorites.
A beautiful stone cut example, iirc by the Miseroni family working together with goldsmiths and emaille artists
Iirc, different artists but also created for Emperor Rudolph II, same with the next one.
Ivory flower vases.
There were a lot of ornamental never-for-use handwash bowl + jug combinations.
The building itself is also very pretty.
