Greetings and welcome to another bit of Friday-flavored fluff coughed up fresh from your ol’ friend Marko.
It may not be my most insightful contribution to the site this week, but it contains a number of finds nonetheless.
You might think that a museum loving critter like myself would have explored every single museum in a city I'd been slinking around in since 1989, but for some reason I'd managed to snub the wonderful National Agricultural Museum in Prague until last weekend. A friend recommended that I visit the current special exhibit of items they've discovered in the archives, items that normally wouldn't find their way into any of their regular exhibits. I'm quite glad that I went.
Okay, but that was outside the exhibit— in the hall. The bells have their own display case. They’re not among the dusty relics dredged from the dark corners of the archives.
In the background of the previous photo, you can see a little wooden house on wheels. See the hole in the roof? It's a model of a shed used for shooting clouds with a trio of brass mortars. An attempt at influencing the weather that predated cloud seeding. Apparently for quite some time people believed that shooting clouds could prevent crop-damaging rain and hail storms.
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