The Diocesan Museum of Paderborn

Paderborn is a catholic town. Everything they do here revolves around the chruch. They have a huge cathedral (Paderborner Dom) and beside it they have a Diocesan Museum. It's filled with tons of old statues, figures, and other chruch related relics. Aside from the ornate goblets and life sized statues and clergy vestments which are amazing in their own right, one can't help but notice something...nearly every piece of work is older than my own country. Think about that. The two oldest things there were the Imad Maria (mother and child made of wood) and a church cloth from the Byzantine Church. Both of these items were from the 11th century. THE 11TH CENTURY!!!! That's a thousand years ago when people still thought the world was flat! In fact, it would be almost 500 years before someone thought to prove the earth was round! Wow. "This was carved when the world was still thought to be flat"...say it out loud. I still can't even fathom it. Wow. Here's the clincher...I paid 1,50 euros to see it. That's less than two dollars. I gotta love culture and history on a budget!