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These which were merged with what Siebold bestowed on King William I; and they became crucial elements in the creation of what became the Museum voor Volkenkunde, or Ethnographic Museum in Leiden in 1837. This institution would later evolve into the National Museum of Ethnology and later, in 2023, Wereldmuseum Leiden. [4]
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:
Its objective is the advancement of the study of the anthropology, linguistics, social sciences, and history of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Area, and the Caribbean. Special emphasis is laid on the former Dutch colonies of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ), Suriname , and the Dutch West Indies (the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba ).
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 ...
[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 ]
Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Issue 5, Volume 129. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1949. Japanese Prints. Nishimuraya Yohachi. Cowell-Thackray Collection of Japanese woodblock prints and works on paper. Accessed October 27, 2013. Honolulu Museum of Art. Portrait of Publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi I on His Seventy-first Birthday.
The Rijksmuseum (Dutch: [ˈrɛiksmyˌzeːjʏm] ⓘ) is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South , close to the Van Gogh Museum , the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , and the Concertgebouw .
Since 1980, efforts have been made to make an inventory of the archaeological sites in the Inland Niger Delta to better understand their size and preservation. One of them was the large-scale excavations initiated by Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde at Leiden, within the framework of a long-term Malian-Dutch cultural heritage program. The initial ...