Night at the museum

Tonight was a "Night of the museums" in the Odenwald. 
The Dragon - Museum in Lindenfels offered guided tours with a torch and that sounded quite silly and interesting.
It was already dark when I arrived there with T.
We saw an eight meter long Chinese dragon on its way to a bus with visitors. Inside the museum we had the absolute pleasure to get a private guided tour for T. and me. It was absolutely stunning to see the objects only illuminated by a torch. The guide told us a lot of interesting facts and was absolutely patiently with a silly blipper :-)
I loved the spotlight on single objects and sometimes there were fabulous shadows (see first extra)
The second extra is for StuartDB. There was the possibility to book a tour to several museums with this historical bus. I was surprised how smal it was. Must have been very interesting for you, Stuart :-)

For those who are interested in some facts about dragons, I or better google translated some informations I found on the the homepage:
Fables have accompanied people since ancient times.


They explained many things which the understanding of man could not otherwise grasp.


Especially the dragon had to deal with many things:


Natural events gave rise to puzzles and huge bones and strange skeletons that were found and disagreed with today's animals.


This is how the image of the dragon originated: Animals that were known were given special attributes. A new "composite" was made of different animals. The characteristics of the dragon developed in different ways. In East Asia, he is lucky, protects the house and the family from evil spirits and demons, he provides rain and advises the emperor. It can appear very small but can also be huge. He does not have wings, but he can fly.


The western dragon, on the other hand, usually has wings and can spit fire. There are also wings without the ability to spit fire. This is usually called Lindwurm or Tatzelwurm in southern Germany and in the Alps. Their weapons are gifts or poisonous spines on the tail. Already in Mesopothamia there was the "evil" dragon. Also in the Bible, the dragon is a monster of God and men, which must be combated. The Archangel Michael, Saint George and other "dragon saints" took over this task. In the Nordic world of legends and the Nibelungenlied, Siegfried took over the task of killing the dragon.


Stories about the dragon, pictures of this mythical creature, myths and myths from around the world, should be shown somewhere...