Museum Cafe Blog

I've traveled for many years,  and while appreciating many of the world's finest museums, I am always drawn - usually first!  - to the most universal of the aesthetic arts.   A good cup of coffee and a comfortable chair in a dynamic setting.  Just to sit and catch your breath,  unfurl a map or two, and cast a jet-lagged eye on  everything that  is new all around you. 

Two favorites are the magnificent Cafe at the Bode Museum in Berlin, and believe it or not, a beautiful and airy  Starbucks on Princes Street in Edinburgh. While not a museum cafe itself, the huge second-floor (first as it is called in Europe) space has four sky-high, beautifully ornate windows that look right up at Edinburgh Castle.  Qualifying it as an annex of a museum-caliber cafe.  In my book. Or my blog. 

 I will be adding entries on many of the museum cafes that I have enjoyed a few quiet moments in around the world... Dublin, Edinburgh, Berlin, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Amsterdam, Alaska, Wisconsin,  London, Munich, and more. 

Photo: David Bank     David-Bank.com           Bode Cafe Terrace, Berlin. 

Photo: Aliona Niraula         Starbucks on Princes Street,  Edinburgh, under Edinburgh Castle.