Vienna, Austria - Enroute Lipizzaner Museum

This day we walked to the lipizzaner museum.. It's a museum that shows all the special horse schools that train special horses for the military.. cool stuff.. but on the way there, we saw several nice things too..


The sculptures that follow actually surround a main sculpture of Queen... erm.. forgot.. hahaha.. but ya.. they are actually important pple that were under the Queen's rule.. Mozart is one of them.




Here's the queen.


Mozart is in the one below. He's the small child. He's portrayed as a small child because of several reasons, but one of them is due to his nature of being playful. Hence, here mozart is preserved in a child sculpture...



This guy picked a perfect spot to sing opera.. the palce was super echoey and it really carried his voice very well.
We're finally at the horse sch/museum.

These are historical or formal records of each horse. Each horse as an identity book that notes the horses' predecessors, their children, their learning score, etc... very much like our report cards, birth certificate and death certificate... It's essential to breed the special breeds of horses that are used in battle. They still practice it today...



Here's the family tree of a particular horse....
The following are the equipment that the horses wear...







Yep.. it's called the Lipizzaner museum.. just FYI.. if you haven't figured it out yet...

Vienna, Austria - Haus de Musik

This is an interesting museum. Well, at least to those who appreciate sounds and music. It has 4 floors that has everthing on sound. From the of the longitudinal waves that sound waves make to the history of music, to the exploration of futuristic sounds and instruments.. super cool.. hahaha..

Here's a gauge that explores the behaviour of sound frequencies. When two frequencies meet, the frequencies are inter-woven and thus creating a third resonant frequency that, even though not physically produced, is heard or felt. There's this roller bar that lets your adjust the frequencies to experiment with it.



Here's a collection of someone's old score. I think it's Mozart's... i think...




dum dum dum dum... Beethoven.. hahaha



The place is relatively dark.. I don't know why, but it's the reason for the lack of photos. AND we arrived there late, hence we had to rush through the exhibition. Anyway, above you just saw some photos of the collection of artifacts that used to belong to the famous composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Vivaldi and the likes... There are also interactive screens that tell the life stories of these musicians.

Apart from the study of classical music, there's also a room for more "hip" music like rock and roll and jazz and stuff..

Another room was a virtual orchestra... There's this baton that you can use to conduct this virtually recreated Vienna orchestra. You get to conduct them and based on yoru movements, they will play the music. If you conduct badly, they will stop and laugh at you. hahaha.. but if you can finish the piece, you can collect your certificate of accomplishment (for one euro i think) at the gift shop.

And at the top floor, is an interesting exhibition of modern instruments. What better way to create music than to use our bodies? It's an exploration of using new ways to create music. Instruments that created music based on our gestures, feelings and brainwave activity. Very very cool.. Could've been a damn cool FYP project.. sure get A.. hahahah.. but ya, this group of scientists and engineers actually did it.. and well.. though, in my opinion, it has a lot to improve on, it is a big accomplishment still...

Vienna, Austria - Haus de Musik

This is an interesting museum. Well, at least to those who appreciate sounds and music. It has 4 floors that has everthing on sound. From the of the longitudinal waves that sound waves make to the history of music, to the exploration of futuristic sounds and instruments.. super cool.. hahaha..

Here's a gauge that explores the behaviour of sound frequencies. When two frequencies meet, the frequencies are inter-woven and thus creating a third resonant frequency that, even though not physically produced, is heard or felt. There's this roller bar that lets your adjust the frequencies to experiment with it.



Here's a collection of someone's old score. I think it's Mozart's... i think...




dum dum dum dum... Beethoven.. hahaha



The place is relatively dark.. I don't know why, but it's the reason for the lack of photos. AND we arrived there late, hence we had to rush through the exhibition. Anyway, above you just saw some photos of the collection of artifacts that used to belong to the famous composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Vivaldi and the likes... There are also interactive screens that tell the life stories of these musicians.

Apart from the study of classical music, there's also a room for more "hip" music like rock and roll and jazz and stuff..

Another room was a virtual orchestra... There's this baton that you can use to conduct this virtually recreated Vienna orchestra. You get to conduct them and based on yoru movements, they will play the music. If you conduct badly, they will stop and laugh at you. hahaha.. but if you can finish the piece, you can collect your certificate of accomplishment (for one euro i think) at the gift shop.

And at the top floor, is an interesting exhibition of modern instruments. What better way to create music than to use our bodies? It's an exploration of using new ways to create music. Instruments that created music based on our gestures, feelings and brainwave activity. Very very cool.. Could've been a damn cool FYP project.. sure get A.. hahahah.. but ya, this group of scientists and engineers actually did it.. and well.. though, in my opinion, it has a lot to improve on, it is a big accomplishment still...

Vienna, Austria - Belvedere garten

Here we visited a very beautiful park/garden... It's pretty big. We walked around it for about 2 hours I believe... The pictures speak for it...

Here's the grand gate to the garden. The garden was originally the garden belonging to some royal person... But since the fall of the monarchy, the garden's been open to the public...

That's the castle belonging to that royal person. Now it's a museum.

Here's an aerial view of the place.. it's huge...

Heh.. we were lucky to catch the ducks, the birds and the bees...

That fellow won't stand still.. Took me a long while to get this shot..

Yeah.. This is the view of the side exit to the garden...

Vienna, Austria - Miscellaneous

Here's some last few shots of Vienna..

Below is the night shot of the famous Opera of Wien...

Their trains are double-decked.. cool...

An interesting advertisement.. Didn't understand a word, but a picture speaks a thousand words...