Late September 2024 friends and I were in Dülmen, Germany, to see a wedding in the ducal family von Croÿ. The reception took place at the Wildpferdebahn, a private possession of the Duke von Croÿ, and we were pleasantly surprised seeing so many Wildpferde (wild horses) from nearby. And then we didn’t even pay a …
Updated: 6 October 2024 Country Place & Country Exhibition Dates Australia The Australian Museum, Sydney Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs 18 November 2023 – 19 May 2024 Austria Lower Belvedere, Vienna Das Belvedere. 300 Jahre Ort der Kunst 2 December 2022 – 7 January 2024 Theatermuseum, Vienna Showbiz made in Vienna …
From 14 December 2023 to 25 August 2024 the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest had an exhibition called Magyar Menyasszony or in English: Hungarian Bride. The exhibition even has its own website, in Hungarian only. There also is a catalogue, in Hungarian only also I guess. According to the media on display was the tableware …
On 14 January 2024 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark handed over the throne to her eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. Since Denmark has a king again, for the first time since 1972. To mark this historical succession, the Amalienborg Museum at the Christian VIII’s Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark, showed a special exhibition from …
You might already have heard it. On Tuesday, 2 April 2024, Balmoral Castle in Scotland, United Kingdom, announced that the grounds, gardens and exhibitions will be open on a daily basis from 4 May to 22 August 2024. But there was a special announcement this year. For the first time since the castle was completed …
A new exhibition opened at the Queen Sonja Art Stable in the former Royal Stables of the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway, in presence of Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Princess Astrid, Mrs Ferner. From 16 February 2024 to 19 January 2025 visitors can enjoy the exhibition “Royal Photographers – snapshots …
After a more than € 20,3 million renovation, that took 16 years, the Palace of Aigai, near the city of Vergina, in the north of Greece, has reopened on 7 January 2024. The palace is the largest surviving building from the classical Greek era. The palace in Aigai was built more than 2,300 years ago …
The Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden has a few interesting exhibitions this year. At the end of October 2024 the exhibition Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China is to be expected. But first, from 2 March 2024 to 1 September 2024 the museum shows the exhibition Porcelain Fever: the white gold of Augustus …
A Portuguese royal wedding was responsible for my first ever trip to Portugal from 3 to 9 October 2023. Unexpectedly warm summer weather – each day around 30 C – made it a bit of a challenge to keep track of my schedule, but in the end I managed to see almost everything I wanted. …
That I haven’t added much to this blog in the past year, isn’t because I didn’t visit noble and royal castles and palaces. Somehow the year was filled with all kind of events, travels and personal celebrations. I didn’t manage to find much time for my blogs. The year started slowly, and it wasn’t until …
