So for the SREF project work I'd like to talk mainly about the beer and oktoberfest museum. The museum was delightful housed in what I believe to be an old brewery a short distance from the Marienplatz and Viktualen Markt. It is a tall building with the round about tour starting on the 4th floor, with history of brewing and its techniques. This includes wonderful artifacts like brewers stoneware, and an "Anciet beer tablet" as I have taken to referring to it pictured below.
The museum then transitions pretty smoothly into a cultural history of beer in Bavaria, and oktoberfest as a tradition and cultural phenomenon. This included displays of Bierdiekles, photos of people enjoying beers together, and other various paraphernalia of beer's cultural footprint. Altogether the museum is well worth the €4 admission, though I wish we had been more acutely aware that the beer tasting at the end wasn't complementary. For the Stadt Museum, the other site we visited, there was less for history of science and tech, though one could talk about or think of ways that science and tech had influenced things like the King's panorama or the marionettes and clock work and the armor and weapons. The clearest link to scientific history was in a special exhibit on National Socialism, which talked about their "Racial science" and demonstrated tools and ideas of that period.
Hi Jacob!
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to the Stadt museum, so it was interesting to learn that they had information on marionettes there, as I went to the toy museum and found that to be an interesting link. What do you think was your favorite exhibit there, whether it related to the history of science or not?
I also enjoyed our time at the Beer and Oktoberfest Museum. I loved how the building itself was historical and old! It offered a lot of useful information in a pleasing manner. I enjoyed the timeline and how it mentioned how the Romans noted the increased beer consumption of the Germans in 96 CE.
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The history of beer is a very interesting subject. While we think of it as a recreational beverage now, the fact (or maybe I'm completely remembering it wrong but I'll think of it as a fact) that beer was sometimes safer to drink than water is astonishing. While I didn't get to go see that museum I hope everyone that did can upload photos.
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