Today we drive to Oberhausen, a town about 50 kilometres away. It has an industrial past but now has cleverly turned many of its unused industrial spaces into museums, exhibition centres and artist education facilities.
We visit the Gasometer. It is a tall round silo-shaped tank that was used for storing gas during the war and beyond. It is now an exhibition cventre. On show at the moment is an exhibit of large photos and exhibits from the most wonderous places of the world. Both natural and man-made wonders are beautifully displayed in huge photo posters. Australia has featured several times with Uluru, rainforests of far north Queensland and Aboriginal paintings.
Central to everything is a huge full-sized model of a buttressed rainforest tree. It could be Australian! It’s over 30 meters tall. I guess they have to fill this huge tall space with something big. A glass external lift takes you to the roof of the tank. From here byou get great views of the city as well as a good dose of chilled air. The autumn trees splatter the city with great colour.
From here we visit Zeche Zollverein. It’s now a disused coal mine that has been converted into a museum and artist space.
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