Whether pedestrians or cab drivers, horse-drawn streetcars or omnibuses - cityscape photographs of old Rostock tell of the lively traffic on the city's streets. While horses, carts and carriages still dominate the streetscape in the earliest photographs, horse-drawn streetcars and bicycles soon appear, only to be replaced soon after by the electric streetcar, the bus and the automobile.
Following the exhibitions "On the open road" and "Rostock busy", this third part of the exhibition takes another look at the often overlooked details on the periphery of historical photographs. The photographic view of the rapidly changing image of road traffic over the past 150 years opens up an exciting piece of Rostock's cultural history.
Shots from the photo collection of the Rostock Museum of Cultural History will be on display, supplemented by valuable loans from private collections.
A richly illustrated catalog will be published by Hinstorff-Verlag to accompany the exhibition.
