As our days in Vienna are winding down, so are the things we
do each day! Today, the only stop on our agenda was the Military History
Museum. In a beautiful, winter wonderland walk to the museum in fresh fallen
snow, I thought back on how wonderful this trip has been. I have learned so
much—things I can’t even imagine learning about in a classroom. I am truly
blessed for this experience.
I am also blessed in the aspect of being able to recognize
good museums from bad ones. Not that the military history museum was bad, it just did a bad job on explaining
anything. It jumped through eras in history, faster than you would skip rocks
on a lake. I learned more from the room summarization papers that were given
out in each room. I don’t mean to be ridiculously negative, but I think that
they did not do a good job of educating people that come to learn more about
Austria’s military in past wars.
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| Franz Ferdinand's uniform |
It was cool, and yet, really gross to see Franz Ferdinand’s
bloody and cut up uniform that he was wearing when he was assassinated. They
also had the car that he was riding in on display too. It was really gross to
see bloody stains that are almost one hundred years old, but at the same time,
it was neat to see the remnants of something that sparked World War One.
The rest of today has been pretty chill. I just hung around
the hotel doing a little pre-packing for later this week when we head to
Budapest, Hungary. I can’t believe we are in the last week of this trip, but I
am looking forward to the rest of what is planned.
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