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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 ...
The Rijksmuseum Research Library is the largest and oldest public art history research library in the Netherlands. [1] The library is part of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The profile of the library collection parallels that of the museum. [2] The online catalogue [3] contains over 400,000 monographs, 3,400 periodicals and 90,000 art sales ...
Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands The Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto ) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt , and now held in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden , Netherlands . [ 1 ]
The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (left) on the Rapenburg in 1880. The building on the right is the Physisch Kabinet which was used for demonstrations of physics and public lectures. The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie [ 1 ] ( National Museum of Natural History ) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden , the Netherlands .
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 .
René Mario de Nebesky-Wojkowitz was born in Groß Hoschütz in Moravia on 29 June 1923. After completing his secondary education in Leitmeritz and Prague, he devoted himself to the study of Central Asian ethnology, Tibetan, and Mongolian at the universities of Berlin and Vienna.