What a gigantic head! This was not what we had expected, even though the museum was also surprisingly large.

The Margravian Museum does not only focus on Ansbach’s history in the narrow sense, but also on one of its most famous residents, Kaspar Hauser. We investigated the mysterious circumstances surrounding him by observing the displays and answering all the questions Dr Streit had presented us with in our extended questionnaires.

Our job was also to draw the most fascinating objects we came across, and, not surprisingly, a couple of us focused on the above-mentioned petrified head of a huge dinosaur found close to Ansbach, in Altdorf, an ichthyosaurus, which had swum in our area millions of years ago.

Among the other objects that we represented were a crown which, in former times used to be put on coffins of unmarried people and decorations on Chinese kitchenware produced by the Margravian manufactury.

In our class room discussion afterwards, we also highlighted the alliance between Ansbach and a remote area, now in the Czech Republic, Jägerndorf, unexpected by most of us. This historical link plays a significant role in the “Jägerndorfer Heimatstube”, a major section of the Museum.

We also found the bird's-eye view of Ansbach particularly fascinating. This was made possible by a large wooden model of our mid-Franconian capital, where we could easily spot our school building and describe the constructional additions made to our building after the model had been produced.

This way, our trip turned out to be more exciting by far than we had initially thought.

Class 12Sa and Dr Streit