Train models in Cracow 4-6 december 2009
December 5th, 2009
Today something from news Krakow. In the Museum of Urban Engineeringg during this weekend, you can admire the railway mock-ups. Models came from the collections of members of the Railway Modellers Club of Cracow.
An exhibition of mock-ups made by members of the railway Krakow Railway Modellers Club and friendly modellers from Lodz, Silesia and the Czech Republic. Mock-ups and models are made in scale 1:87, known as H0 (hazero). Most of the models were produced in series by the German and Austrian manufacturers.There are also mock-ups build by Polish railway enthusiasts. Technological progress allowed the fitting of sound decoders in locomotives, so that the model seems more realistic. Read the rest of this entry »
Nativity scenes created in the Kraków area owe their beauty and formal uniqueness to the local architecture, since the craftsmen who create those fantastic structures amply draw from the bottomless well of inspiration provided by Kraków monuments and edifices. Even the untrained eye will surely recognize the steeples of St Mary’s Church, or the cupola of Sigismund’s Chapel featuring in many of these cribs. Over the past few years, nativity scene makers have been prone to using elements of lay architecture, such as the Barbican, the Town Hall Tower, City Defence Walls, St Florian’s Gate, or the Cloth Hall. It is thanks to those sources of inspiration that Kraków nativity scenes – magical and fantastic as they are – seem at the same so very close and familiar to the local audience.
