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Wereldmuseum Leiden (also 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 first generation Nissan Murano was unveiled in production form for the model year of 2003, at the 2002 New York International Auto Show.It is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 producing 183 kW (245 hp) and 334 N⋅m (246 lbf⋅ft), also used in several other Nissan models like the Altima, Maxima, and Nissan 350Z, but specifically tuned for use in the Murano.
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.
This is an incomplete list of painters in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, with the number of artworks represented, and sorted by century of birth.For more information about the collection which comprises more than 3,000 paintings, see Rijksmuseum.
A vast and eccentric collection of everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to an entire house relocated from Syria, the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum is worth a trip into the deserts of Qatar.
version 3.0 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.