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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 ]
The Museum of Bags and Purses (Dutch: Tassenmuseum Amsterdam), was a museum devoted to the history of bags, purses, and their related accessories. Located in Amsterdam 's historic central canal belt, [ 2 ] the museum's collection included over 5,000 items dating back to the sixteenth-century.
De Ceuvel is a former shipyard in North Amsterdam, repurposed as a circular office park.Former houseboats hoisted onto the land are used as workspaces and ateliers for various creative and sustainable initiatives. [1]
For the royal family's summer photos at Zuiderstrand, Queen Maxima opted for an elegant take on beachy whites—and perfectly coordinated with her pup, Mambo. Patrick van Katwijk - Getty Images ...
With six floors and a maximum height of 37 metres, the Astoria building was one of the first office towers in the Netherlands. The building was a design by H.H. Baanders and Gerrit van Arkel, two architects who designed many buildings in Amsterdam in a sobre version of Jugendstil which later came to be known as Nieuwe Kunst ("New Art").
There were four grades of quality, the highest was indicated by pressing four seals and the lowest by pressing only one. The inspectors used pliers to press the seals of their city (front) and guild (reverse) into penny-sized slugs of lead that were specially affixed to record the results of the inspection. [3] They met three times a week.
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 ...
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