Saturday, February 15, 2014

Days 31-34 - Vienna Pictures

Here's my pictures. Just so you know, this will be a VERY large post. No, really. I took over 400 photos on this trip. I won't post them all here, but there was a lot that happened that was important and so there will be a lot of pictures. Just warning you.

 First look of Vienna
 Dr. Schnabel gave us a tour
 Look how cool his Schnabel (beak) is!
 The ceiling of a school lecture hall
 I don't know about you, but I would not be able to concentrate
 This is just a super cool outfit. 
Also, My teacher is totally better than yours.
So 1 guess what this will lead to


 Yes, a church. A Gothic church to boot too
 Obligatory Church photos
 A sculpture on the side
 Our program coordinator likes Dr. Schnabel's mask too
 A random church.
 ORGAN!
 The top of that huge Gothic church (Stephan's cathedral) is patterned to look like the flag
 Above Micheal's church
 A tribute to the plague and the horrors it caused
 Another view of Micheal's church
 So much gold leaf!
 On the coffins beneath the church in the crypts (what we came to see)
 This coffin was restored so you can see the decoration on it
 See how pretty they made it?
 What's that around the corner you ask?
 BONES! We were much more interested in this than the coffins. Our guide was amazed.
 Out front of the Josifinum (with the wax organs)
 Old-time optometrist's tools
 Real tools from doctors way back when
 One of the first leg prosthetic's
 Just having fun
 We got a bit bored towards the end
 RANDOM CHURCH ALERT!
 A painting from the impressionist museum
 Close up of the wood carved painting (you know, the one I went into detail on in the post?)
This one had 4 blocks
 At the University
 Where we ate lunch (ha, uni-brow)
 Nina! She was our med-student guide
 MORE CHURCH!
 During our hang out later that day
 Don't mind us, just enjoying a fantastic day with our sweets to finish it off
 Where our classical music concert was held
 I know, so much church, but so beautiful!
 Group pic (minus me)
 At the Freud museum
 Wall of his achievements
 A recreation of where his patients would wait
 His dresser and mirror...thing
 Opposite the Natural history museum
 The ceiling is so cool
 Ancient moose or elk bones
 In front of a home made of mammoth bones (recreation)
 The Venus Statue. See, large and robust
 This thing is only like 3 inches high
 The gemstone and silk bouquet
 The bones and recreation of an ancient fish
 These bones and our guide are standing on the same level. Just to give some perspective
 An ancient elephant (not a mammoth)
 The largest turtle bones ever discovered (not a cast, the original)
 Yes, it's distorted, but it's the only way to get it all (I was against the wall backing up)
 OK, this thing goes all the way to the other side of the room.
 A narwhal's (unicorn!) tooth
 A baby blue whale's bones
 A rare double narwhal's horns (bi-corn!)
 Alright, think 5 of these for every room, for over 20 rooms and you have an approximation on the spread of animals they had
 These owls are just really cool, and Hedwig is there too!
 The dodo and wolf in the endangered/extinct species exhibit
 The extinct Tasmanian wolf
 What humans would have looked like long ago
 This was in the ocean creatures exhibit. It's made of glass
 Yes, that is a giant squid reaching across the ocean animal room
 When we got out, it was beautiful. And not a church, but part of a palace.
See, I can be diverse.
We went to the palace cafe beneath this opening

Congratulations!! You got past all 70 pictures. Yes, that was only a fraction of the picture I took and I had to cut down on a lot. I would have put up more on the wax organs or the pickled human organs that we saw, but there were absolutely no pictures allowed there, so sorry. I hope you enjoyed it!

Erin Z

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