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The Rotunda, dedicated in honour of Ernest and Elizabeth Samuel, is the Museum’s ceremonial entrance hall. It features one of the Museum’s most magnificent architectural treasures—a spectacular mosaic dome that has fascinated generations of staff and visitors.
Charles T. Currelly, the first director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, conceived of this mosaic introduction for the 1933 addition. The mosaic ceiling was designed to reflect the breadth of the collections, being adorned with patterns and symbols representing cultures throughout the ages and around the world.
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Built by the Normans, it was consecrated in 1197 by the Archbishop Berardo. Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor and Constance I of Sicily were present to witness the ceremony. The current building is the final result of some twentieth-century reconstructions, which took place following the disastrous earthquake that struck Messina in 1908 and the considerable damage that resulted from the heavy aerial bombardment in World War II.
The MAK Vienna
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art is one of the most important museums.
Das MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst ist eines der bedeutendsten Museen.
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I went to a meetup in San Francisco a few weeks back and found this beautiful stained glass ceiling. Do you know, or can you guess where this is? The title gives a hint.
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW long exposure, then merged the two images.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC8756_hdr1bal1pai1d
UPDATE 2015-12-26: I took this shot when I went to an open house event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. They purchased an old church and converted it into a workplace and datacenter. Quite unique. This is the glass ceiling of the main hall upstairs. The same hall also serves as a datacenter.
If you happen to work on gravitational physics the throat of a wormhole and one end of the two asymptotic sheets it connects - an Einstein-Rosen bridge - may perhaps come to mind when you set foot at the Sony Center in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and look at the building's beautiful ceiling. If you wish you can take a look at the Wikipedia entry on wormholes to notice the (somewhat frivolous) analogy.