But a quick flick through the Rough Guide tells me that not only is it home to two of Germany's finest technical museums, as well as the Eisenbahn railway museum (reached by the bizarre Schine-Strasse bus-train hybrid) but also that it has a theatre purposely built for Starlight Express.
What didn't get much publicity was the discovery, when museum technical staff looked at the paintings, that early reports of their condition had been optimistic.
Data on invertebrate taxa were obtained from the available literature, technical reports, databases, museum data collections, and the NaGISA project in the case of Golfo Nuevo rocky shore invertebrates.
Technical staff at Guernsey Museums, who are trained in conservation work, applied a new surface coating and securing pins and remounted it.
"There will be lots of exciting technical developments in museums near you in the very near future," he says.
Admission prices were kept down through council subsidies, and programs were introduced to provide technical assistance to museums and historical societies.
We reacted by diversifying the product range to include more affordable ready-made model ships; concentrated on the corporate sector through rebranding work and building models of technical vessels; supplying museums and conducting restoration work.
The museum had technical reasons for taking a functional rather than fine-art view of the medium.
She added that she enjoyed being part of a concentration of energy — by the composer, musicians, museum staff, technical staff and others — that achieved a single artistic purpose.
"There are a lot of things we could have done to make the Borfin move, but it's got to have the Seuss quality and be interactive," said Rich Miller, the museum's technical designer.
Over the last two years, Ms. González, a researcher in the museum's technical documentation department, has used all manner of modern-day techniques — X-rays, infrared reflectography and high-resolution digital images, among others — to make, and then document, an unlikely finding.
