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Dine with the Dutch masters
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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With close to one million objects and 1.2 million visitors a year, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is the largest museum of art and history in the Netherlands and Amsterdam’s most popular attraction. The Neo-Gothic building located on Museumplein square holds the magnificent Dutch national art collection of some 5,000 paintings, 30,000 pieces of applied art and 17,000 historical artifacts.The museum will start extensive renovations in 2003 until 2010, but the West Wing will remain
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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Visit the only airport museum in the world! The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is located inside the airport terminal, after passport control, on Holland Boulevard, the corridor connecting Piers E and F. The museum is open daily from 7 am to 8 pm
Art & culture
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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DordrechtTaste the atmosphere of Dordrecht by taking a walk along the cosy harbours and the more than 1000 monuments in the historic inner city. Visit the Dordrechts Museum with magnificent paintings of Dutch masters, such as Aelbert Cuyp and Rembrandt
Art - Girl with a pearl earring
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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Around 1665 Vermeer (1632-1675) painted a number of "tronies", of which this is undoubtedly the best known and loved. A "tronie" is a painted face that is intended not to be a portrait, but as a rendering of a particular type of charac
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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The Boijmans is the only museum in Holland that covers the 14th century to the present in its art collection. It is also the only museum with works by the Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1510). The large collection of the museum includes works by many
Art - Jan Steen (1626-1679)
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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'A Jan Steen household' is a well-known Dutch expression. It means an untidy, messy and dissolute household and order, diligence and neatness are lacking altogether. These are the kind of scenes Jan Steen (1626-1679) painted. Not much is known abo
Amsterdam Historical Museum
Apr 21, 2007 3:58 PM GMT Source:
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The museum gives an overview of the history of Amsterdam from the 13th century to the present. Archeological finds, models, silver and gold exhibits, glass, earthenware, porcelain, paintings and prints show how the city grew from a small settlement along
Art in the glow of Amsterdam red lights
Sep 17, 2008 12:00 AM GMT Source:
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Never have its gracious enfilades and echoing halls witnessed anything like it: the National Gallery, repository of the nation's finest Old Masters, is to re-create a red-light district, complete with...
