Long night of the museums in Mannheim

After our visited to the town museum we took the underground, crossed the Rhein river and went to Mannheim. So our next destination was the castle in Mannheim.

The "Mannheimer Schloss" was renovated in 2007 for the 440 years anniversary of Mannheim. During the museum night, there were several attractions that could be visited.

We decided to start the visit with an exhibition in the south wing of the castle. This exhibition covered a creative clash of diverse art categories, progressive music, graffiti art and fashion design. In the first floor stood a 15 m a long table which was used as a catwalk for a fashion show.

On the second floor some guy built a little with about 10.000 kitchen sponges. We were not sure why he actually did this and what is was supposed to tell us, but it was certainly interesting to watch. Indeed the atmosphere in the building was filled with artistic spirit. Certainly an experience...

After a little break, during which we went to the city centre for a snack, we continued our tour in the castle. We thought we would visit the newly renovated baroque entrance hall, but since there was such a long queue, we continued in some other part of the castle.

The assembly hall was our next destination. In this part of the castle, a photographer showed portraits of famous DJs. The specialty of the photos were, that the showed the portraits focused on the most important body parts of a DJ: eyes, ears and hand.

Once we left the building we saw that the queue for the baroque entrance hall had disappeared. So we finally went there. In fact, after this tour it was almost two o'clock in the morning and the long night of the museum was about to close. Some of us went back to Heidelberg by train and some by car. We arrived at the hostel around half past two.