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Wereldmuseum Leiden (formerly known as Museum Volkenkunde) is a Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands located in the university city of Leiden. As of 2014, the museum, along with Wereldmuseum Amsterdam , in Amsterdam, and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam , together make up the National Museum of World Cultures .
Rijksmuseum (Dutch, 'state museum') is the general name for a national museum in the Dutch language. When only "Rijksmuseum" is used, it usually refers to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam . Current and former Rijksmusea in the Netherlands include the following:
The Dutch National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) was founded in 2014 by a merger of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. It also oversees the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, whose collection belongs to that city. According to the museum's webpage, these collections contain "nearly ...
The ESV Study Bible is a recent addition which sold well in its pre-release phase, in the fall of 2008. [4] In recent times, study Bibles focusing on specific aspects of the Biblical message, have appeared, such as The Green Bible, an English version of the New Revised Standard Version Bible (originally published by Harper Bibles on October 7 ...
The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (left) on the Rapenburg in 1880. The building on the right is the Physisch Kabinet which was used for demonstrations of physics and public lectures. The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie [ 1 ] ( National Museum of Natural History ) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden , the Netherlands .
[4] The Prajnaparamita of Java was discovered in 1818 or 1819 by D. Monnereau, a Dutch East Indies official. In 1820 Monnereau gave the statue to C.G.C. Reinwardt , who later brought the statue to the Netherlands , where it became a prized possession of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden . [ 2 ]
In 1941, the museum was renamed the Rijksmuseum Voor Volkskunde (National museum for folklore). During the Battle of Arnhem , it temporarily served as a shelter for a few hundred evacuees. Three children were born in the museum - Nora Olga Marijke (November 15, 1944), Franneke van der Kallen (November 17, 1944), and a child that passed away two ...
René Mario de Nebesky-Wojkowitz was born in Groß Hoschütz in Moravia on 29 June 1923. After completing his secondary education in Leitmeritz and Prague, he devoted himself to the study of Central Asian ethnology, Tibetan, and Mongolian at the universities of Berlin and Vienna.