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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 ...
Museum Volkenkunde (ethnology) Museum Het Leids Wevershuis; Wagenmakersmuseum; Closed. Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet (now the Geldmuseum in Utrecht) Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (collection is included in Naturalis) Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (collection is included in Naturalis)
The Rijksmuseum is one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The list of most visited museums in the Netherlands contains the museums in the Netherlands with more than 250,000 visitors per year. Fourteen of these museums are located in Amsterdam, the country's capital.
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The Association for Folklore The Dutch Open Air Museum (Dutch: Vereniging voor Volkskunde Het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum) was created that same month. It was opened to the public on July 13, 1918. At the time of its opening, the museum contained 6 buildings that had been moved in from other locations across the country.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Dutch: Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021.