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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 ...
In 1969, a KITLV office was started by Hans Ras in Jakarta ("KITLV-Jakarta"), as a part of an agreement with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.Here, publications from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are bought and given a place in the library of the institute, publications of the institute are sold, and original scientific works in the Dutch language are translated into Indonesian.
The Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces (VCM) shares more than 2,700 Masterpieces of Asian culture online. Since its launch in 2007 more than 145 museums in Asia and Europe have joined the VCM.
Unlike Slim and Gorman, Denise Rosales has spent her life making and selling beadwork and other art. “My grandma took me to roadside stands, where I sat on a blanket making jewelry,” said ...
Marrigje Rikken (born 1984) is a Dutch art historian, curator, and museum director, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish art. [1] [2] [3] [4]She received her PhD in art history from the University of Leiden, where she completed her dissertation on animal depictions in Southern Netherlandish art from 1550 to 1630 in 2016. [5]
In the Netherlands, his works can be found at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden and the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam. References This page was last edited on ...