[Photos taken 11 August 2024, posted online 13 November 2024. It’s now fully dark in the mornings, but it’s been warm… we could do without the rain and wind though!]
On Sunday’s, most everything in Germany is closed. This day was predicted to be very warm, so I tried finding something that was a) open, and b) probably air conditioned. I ended up dragging everybody to the BMW Museum which fulfilled a) but failed spectacularly at b). It was so warm in there that one child wilted soon after entry, and another became nauseous half-way through.
After all but running through the BMW display rooms, we walked across the way to the newer BMW Welt / World which was nicer in air-temperature but didn’t have a lot of things for us to do.
Then we crossed another street into the Olympia park, where we finally found a respite from the heat inside a mostly subterranean aquarium.
Dinner was at the same place we’d eaten on our arrival day the Sunday prior. Why mess with perfection?
Earlier that day Bjarki’d joined me at the nearby cafe for breakfast. Everyone else was too lazy!
Good stuff!
My heel was still very unhappy, so I kept trailing all the others. This is us walking to the Joseph’s place underground station.
Some 13 minutes later, we’d made it to the Olympic-center station.
Walking to the museum. That monster building on the right is the newer BMW fancy-building called BMW Welt / World.
It took a silly long time to enter the building. There were two lines on two sides of the building, one was supposed to be for people with online tickets, but seemed to contain people without them. Those then had to buy tickets at a kiosk inside, resulting in a long line. One of the attendants kept telling people with online tickets to enter around the corner, where there was no line?! It took a while to figure out, but he meant going in through the cafe/restaurant “exit” and straight into the atrium!!?! Anyway, we finally made it inside, and were greeted with this fancy moving 3D-string sculpture, that arranged itself into various silhouettes.
A small sampling of the moving silhouette. (Animated gif, wait for it to load.)
The beginnings.
Back when propellers were made of wood!!
It was very warm inside the museum, and Emma was the first to wilt.
A huge multi-level wall showing the evolution of motorcycles.
Fancy car.
Fast car.
Engines.
My age!
Quite interesting to see all the cars lined up by age.
By a land-speed-record-breaking vehicle.
The museum is a series of numbered rooms and areas. We were about mid-way through there, and Bjarki started feeling nauseous because of the heat and lack of water.
Fancy concept car.
We speed-walked through the remainder, but I got a cute photo of Anna against the cute car.
The classic black BMW featured in many a film and TV show, as we made our escape.
We sped through the whole museum in one hour, and were most grateful for scoring a table at the very busy cafe/restaurant by the exit. We rehydrated, and got some food and ice cream into the gang. The experience was so unpleasant that I ended up leaving a Google maps review complaining of the excessive heat and lack of water inside.
Walking across the bridge to BMW Welt / World on the other side of the road. That large spire on the left is the Olympic tower. Its observation deck was closed.
About to enter BMW Welt. You can see the tops of the Olympic stadium roof on the left.
