Historiches Museum, Hannover, Germany

*NOTE* This post will be a little shorter simply for the fact that a lot of my photos did not work out that well this time, must learn how to take a stable and accurate shot without flash (for museums and certain nightshots)

We decided to visit the Museum of History since it was a very rainy day, and that eliminated our first choice which was to visit some spectacular gardens and a fun park, however the museum turned out to be really quite fascinating.  Even though it is a fairly unassuming small building located within Hannovers old town area, it still manages to be home to some really interesting exhibits, and for a 5 euro entry fee it really was quite special.

Our first stop was the "Life on the Land" area, this basically showed life in Hannover in the very early years, when farming and agriculture were more important, as well as some of the implements and routines required to live in those days.

Some scale models of houses and their methods of construction

And also one which showed the layout of a general farm

And what stroll through the history of farming would be complete without an awesome looking scythe!

Next was kind of a mish-mash of era's as well as pieces significant to them... I suspect we walked through this backwards, so in the interests of preserving my own stupidity... we start with the 50's and all of the amazing advertising which came with it, as you can see German advertisements were much the same as their American counterparts, if you have watched a lot of Mad Men the style should be quite familiar to you.

This jukebox contained most of the standard tracks of those years, I think it had some Chubby Checker on it, classy!

And the German lounge circa 1955, doesn't look too far from most other lounges of the era

BMW.... they really have come a very very long way

Since we were going back to front, we then encountered the WW2 area, this first picture was actually really interesting, this is the formal dissolution of the Nazi party. If you view this at full size, you should be able to read that it actually specifies all of the different organisations under the Nazi party which must also be dissolved etc

Various currency and food stamps of the time

This poster reads "Youth serves the Fuhrer"

This poster reads, "Our last hope Hitler"

Next we visited an area which I guess would be best described as "Local history" it contained various items of interest to Hannover specifically.

And I think for now that will actually do... I may do a second post of the few scattered other cool things there, but this post is already longer than I had really intended any single post to be.

Much love... Abigail