The Museum Of Modern Puzzle
Another edition of the Monday puzzles.
(image: Olemang)
The above picture is a hint to solving this week’s puzzle. It is a picture of this past Saturday’s unveiling of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto (via Torontoist). Hope that’s enough of a hint.
*(This puzzle is dedicated to Carl, who, among other things, is addicted to Google Earth)
Happy Scheming.
Question 1 40 degrees, 46′ 58.71″ N
73 degrees, 57′ 32.47″ W
Question 2 48 degrees, 51′ 40.95″ N
02 degrees, 20′ 06.53″ E
Question 3 51 degrees, 31′ 06.98″ N
00 degrees, 07′ 33.53″ W
Question 4 52 degrees, 21′ 34.25″ N
04 degrees, 53′ 03.11″ E
Question 5 59 degrees, 56′ 25.69″ N
30 degrees, 18′ 50.30″ E
1. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY USA
2. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
3. The British Museum, London, UK
4. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL – though if you’re being sneaky you may also be looking for the Van Gogh Museum.
5. The Winter Palace and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dan, you are a master cartographer.
All 5 are correct, (and yes, I was going for the Rijksmuseum, not the Van Gogh).
Did you use Google Earth? That toy is amazing!
No google earth required, just my mad GIS skills.
Here’s one for you. What is the significance of the building at:
-37° 49′ 7.17″, +144° 57′ 27.80″
(hint: its not a museum)
And for EXTRA EXTRA bonus marks, can you tell me the significance of the structure just recently built at:
+33° 7′ 35.95″, -117° 18′ 48.20″
(hint: also not a museum)
Hmm, Google Earth helped immensely. It seems to say that the first is located in Melbourne, Australia (Rialto Towers), and that the second is somewhere in California (near Lego-land).
As to their respective significance, you’ve stumped me!
Well done, you’re GIS skills are good, but there is still much to learn:
1. Rialto Towers – Tallest Office Building in the Southern Hemisphere
2. Legoland California – Home of the world’s tallest Lego Tower:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458709&in_page_id=1811
I thought Dan was a weatherman…
Arrgh, I missed this one. But did anyone notice the wall at the right (north by north east) end of #1? Any guess what the street that follows the path of this wall is now called?
Hmm, I don’t know. You live in NYC, right?
It’s a beautiful picture of the Wall that Wall Street is named for. I’m not from New York, but I’ve been here a long time.