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The Dutch crown had previously purchased the smaller collections of Jan Cock Blomhoff in 1826 and Johannes Gerhard Frederik van Overmeer Fischer in 1832. 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 ...
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 Dutch government is repatriating hundreds of artifacts, including six from the Rijksmuseum — marking the first time the national institution has returned pieces from its collection.
The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology.
In the last years of his life he was honoured in several ways, among others with an honorary doctorate in law from the University of South Africa, a bust in the hall of the Eeufeesgebou of the University of the Free State, with a copy in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology) in Leiden, and an honorary diner party by ...
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave was elected European Museum of the Year 2019. Founded in 1977, this is the oldest and most prestigious museum award in Europe. The international jury praised the completely renewed science and medicine museum in Leiden: "The exceptional public quality of this museum results from its artful approach to communicating science.