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The Maritime Museum (Dutch: Het Scheepvaartmuseum, pronounced [ət ˈsxeːpfaːrtmyˌzeːjʏm]) is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum had 419,060 visitors in 2012. [ 5 ] It ranked as 11th most visited museum in the Netherlands in 2013. [ 6 ]
Royal Palace of Amsterdam Amsterdam, one of Europe's capitals, has many attractions for visitors. The city's most famous sight is the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam (in Dutch: grachtengordel), located in the heart of Amsterdam, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Museums Main article: List of museums in Amsterdam Nemo museum in Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum is the national museum ...
The Museumplein (Dutch pronunciation: [myˌzeːjʏmˈplɛin]; English: Museum Square) is a public space in the Museumkwartier neighbourhood of the Amsterdam-Zuid borough in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Located at the Museumplein are three major museums – the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and Stedelijk Museum – and the concert hall Concertgebouw. [1]
For something uniquely Amsterdam-esque, Sweets Hotel is a city-wide series of 28 transformed bridge houses, where staff once manually controlled the canals. Now, guests use a passcode to ...
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Officer with a Laughing Girl (also known as Officer and Laughing Girl) [7] c. 1657 [7] Oil on canvas, 50.5 × 46 cm Frick Collection, New York: The Milkmaid: c. 1658 [7] or c. 1657–58 [8] Oil on canvas, 45.5 × 41 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Wine Glass, also known as A Lady Drinking and a Gentleman and The Glass of ...
The Big Map of Amsterdam in 1544 by Cornelis Anthonisz. Depicting the sharp angle the Schreierstoren makes with the old city wall on the bottom-left. The name in Old Dutch was 'Schreyhoeckstoren' (schrey = sharp, hoeck = angle, toren = tower) referring to the sharp angle the tower makes in the once-connected city walls. [3]
The female painters of the Amsterdam Impressionism belonged to a later generation than the French female impressionists Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916), Mary Cassatt (1845–1926), Eva Gonzalès (1847–1893) and Berthe Morisot (1841–1895). Characteristic of the french female impressionists is the powerful, light-filled color palette with ...
In Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. The accounts go ...