Info Amsterdam

?Van Gogh museum

A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is a unique experience. The museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world. It provides the opportunity to keep track of the artist’s developments, or compare his paintings to works by other artists from the 19th century in the collection. The museum also holds an extensive offer of exhibitions on various subjects from 19th century art history.

?Anne Frank huis

The Anne Frank huis (Anne Frank house) is a museum about Anne Frank and the other people who were hiding in the Achterhuis (back part of the house). In the frond part the actual museum is, and there is explanation about Anne Frank, her family, their hiding and the other people who were hiding with them. In the back part is the Achterhuis, the part of the house were they were actually hiding during World War 2 and were Anne wrote her diary. You can see all the rooms and see what it looked like when they were hiding there.

?Nemo

The Nemo is a museum which is unlike the other musea which are named in this list. It is a museum about science and chemistry were you can do experiments and tests. The museum can be very much fun because here you can do the things you like, by yourself.

?Theatre museum

The Theatre Museum is located in several seventeenth century canal houses on the Herengracht. Beautifully built and decorated. Herengracht 168

During the sixteenth century, Amsterdam remained approximately the same size as a century earlier, whilst the population had tripled. This led to a series of expansions of the city. In 1638, the excavation of the canals of Amsterdam was begun. Rich citizens had their houses built alongside them. One of these was Michael de Pauw, who in 1638 granted to Philip Vingboons – at that time one of Amsterdam’s foremost architects – the commission to construct the building on the site of Herengracht 168. Originally, there stood a confectioner’s bakery there, and what is now a magnificent marble corridor, was once an alleyway. One special innovative feature of the house is the neck-gable, the first that was built in Amsterdam. During the 18th century, a hundred years after the building of the house, the widow Dix undertook an extensive renovation.The guiding principle of the new design was symmetry. The effect of which was to create an impression of space. The markings of the marble, to the left and right hand side, were so placed as to form a mirror image, giving the impression that the hall is broader than it actually is.

• BACKSTAGE, an exhibition on making theatre

Visitors to our exhibition Backstage, an exhibition on making theatre, discover that a performance is built up from several disciplines. The six most important parts of theatre making are introduced: text, directing, play, costumes, scenery, light and sound. Daily in the Theatermuseum.

Dance!

The Theatre Museum presents the exhibition Dance! People dance for various reasons. For some it is art and artistic expression, for others it is relaxation and enjoyment. But how one experiences dance – on the dance floor, the stage or in the ballroom – it is always an experience.

?the biblical museum

Where Bible, art and culture meet in a monument full of history.
A fascinating expedition through the world of one the oldest and most-read books.

Archaeological discoveries, artefacts from ancient Egypt, centuries-old models of the temple of Solomon and Herod, religious objects from the Judeo-Christian tradition and even aromas bring Bible stories to life for visitors to the Biblical Museum. It houses a famous 19th-century model of the Tabernacle: a wonderful reconstruction of the sacred shrine housing the Ark of the Covenant, which the Israelites carried with them during their exile in the desert under the leadership of Moses. Displays centred on a model of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem explain the significance of this sacred place in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Clay tablets, fragments of papyrus and archaeological remains tell the fascinating story of how the Bible came into existence, and the influence it has had on Dutch society through the ages.

a unique museum in a historic setting
The Biblical Museum is housed in two historic buildings on the Herengracht canal in Amsterdam. The renowned architect Philips Vingboons built the houses for Amsterdam merchant Jacob Cromhout in 1662. This remarkable and atmospheric setting provides a home for the unique collection of one of the oldest museums in the Netherlands. history
Since 1975 the Biblical Museum has been housed in two imposing canalside buildings, known as the Cromhout houses, on Amsterdam’s stately Herengracht. These historic buildings in the Dutch Classical style were built in 1662 by the celebrated architect Philips Vingboons for their first resident, the wealthy merchant Jacob Cromhout. A crooked log on the gable stone at the front of the house is a reference to the literal meaning of Cromhout’s surname: “bent wood”.

?Amsterdam historic museum.

The Amsterdam Historical Museum moved into the buildings of the former civil orphanage in 1975. The façades, the gates, the governors room and the boys and girls courtyards recall the days when this was a children’s home. A brief history of the building’s previous existence is told in and around the governors room. An interactive program about the orphanage also contains several old photos. The following extracts give an idea of the contents.

Orphanage

The orphanage was founded around 1520 in a house on Kalverstraat. In 1579 the institute moved to the former St Lucy’s convent that once stood on the site of the present museum. This medieval building was gradually demolished and in the course of the seventeenth century a new complex emerged.

Treasures of Amsterdam

To give an idea of the range of the museum collection, sixty-three highlights are featured from the current permanent display. Select from the menu.

Art and the City

Since 1926 the Amsterdam Historical Museum has provided a home for the city’s art collection. This has been accumulated since the seventeenth century when a gallery was first opened at the town hall on Dam Square. Over the years many objects from urban institutions were added to this, including militia portraits, and portraits of governors, the guild silver collection and the David and Goliath statues. In the nineteenth century various citizens also left private collections to the city, the Willet-Holthuysen Museum being one example.

Info Arnhem.

The open air museum

Holland in just one day!You are welcome to step into more than 80 historic houses, farmhouses and mills, and spend a day discovering how ordinary Dutch people have lived over the last few hundred years.

Meet friendly farmers, the wheelwright, the blacksmith, the fisherman and the miller. As they work, they will paint you a colourful picture of their lives. You may even get the chance to roll up your sleeves yourself!

.The Netherlands Open Air Museum has a number of special items relating to the royal house in its possession.

Celebrations connected with the holy Saint Nicholas were held as far back as the Middle Ages. At mediaeval convent schools in Northern France, the saint would ‘appear’ to the children in a theatrical performance, a so-called miracle play. He would bring gifts for diligent pupils and reprimand those who had been idle.

Via the convent schools, celebrations among schoolchildren spread further across Europe. In the Netherlands markets and fairs were held during the Saint Nicholas celebration. Young people gave each other confectionery hearts and gingerbread people representing ‘sweethearts’. At this time children could also put their shoes by the fireplace to receive a small gift.

 

During the period from 1750 to 1850, Saint Nicholas became a festival that was used by educators, with children who worked hard at school being rewarded by Saint Nicholas. This moralistic tone clearly emerges from a number of picture books that the museum has in its collection.

 

Info Lelystad: One group will visit the Aviodrome in the morning and the Batavia yard in the afternoon, the other group vice versa. It means that you will have a change by bus between 12.00/13.00 . All groups will visit Bataviastad at 15.00 -16.00.

At 16.00 leaves the bus to Almere.

Batavia werf is a yard w here they rebuild an ancient VOC ship. It ia an authentic reconstruction of the Batavia.

The wreck of the Batavia

The present Batavia was named after a historic predecessor which was built in 1628 in Amsterdam by order of the VOC, the Dutch United East India Company.

On her maiden voyage, under the command of Francisco Pelsaert, she was wrecked on a reef off the Australian westcoast. This reef is part of the islandgroup called ‘Houtman Abrolhos’. The wreckplace of the Batavia lies on present Beacon Island at 28¡ 30′ South and 113¡ 47′ East. In his absence a mutiny evolved under the command of a company official called Jeronimus Cornelisz. This Jeronimus saw himself as founder of a new kingdom where there would be room only for his followers. Over a hundred people were slaughtered by him and his accomplices. A group of soldiers under the command of Wiebe Hayes managed to resist attack from this self-styled king on a neighbouring island. When Pelsaert returned he managed to overcome the mutineers with the help of these soldiers. All were tried and most were hanged, some received whiplashes or were keelhauled. In the 1970’s the wreck of the Batavia and many artefacts were salvaged. Partly they are now on exhibition at the Batavia Gallery in Fremantle, West-Australia..

  Aviodrome

 Take flight at the Aviodrome!

A day in the clouds.

Experience 100 intriguing aviation years in the National Aviation Theme Park Aviodrome at Lelystad Airport (just 45 minutes from Amsterdam). The Aviodrome, with its very large collection of historic planes, is a unique aviation theme park and is opened year round. The interactive Aviodrome exposition and the dynamic theme park bring history back to life. Regularly special activities and events are organized for the public. During school holidays special activities for children are organized. The National Aviation Theme Park Aviodrome is a great day out for young and old alike.

Permanent exhibition
The ‘time machine’ takes visitors back to 1896, showing them key events in Dutch aviation history on the way. Now the journey though history can really begin. Authentic Dutch aircraft are presented in beautiful displays that, together with many visual and sound effects, provide the right period atmosphere. When museum guests visit ‘the 1930’s’ they can board the ‘Pelikaan’, a beautifully simulated pre-war KLM Fokker airliner, to experience what air travel must have been like in the early years of passenger air transport. In the ‘top-down’ theatre visitors take on the role of passengers in a hot air balloon, flying over some of the most interesting sites in the Netherlands. The size of the post-war passenger aircraft in the exhibition hall will certainly impress. The concept of flight is explained in the ‘aviation lab’; hands-on experiments show how and why aircraft can fly.

Theme park
Apart from the beautiful museum exhibition Aviodrome has much more on offer. A 250-seat movie theatre offers spectacular viewing of wide screen aviation films. In the T-2 hangar outside, the Douglas DC-2 ‘Uiver’, the last flying DC-2 in the world, can be seen. The DC-2 will soon be joined by the Lockheed Constellation, a graceful airliner from the 1940’s, which is also in flying condition. The Aviodrome boasts the largest replica in the Netherlands: the Schiphol 1928 building. An exact replica of the 1920’s Amsterdam Airport terminal building. Children will love the flight simulator in which the thrills of flying a jet fighter can be experienced first hand.

ver 200 young people have built an
authentic reconstruction of the VOC-merchantman Batavia from 1628