National Museum Day off - Museum Day in the Netherlands

Автор: OUTLOOK 09.04.2018

Annually one of the weeks of April in the Netherlands is held by residents and tourists of the country with the benefit for raising the educational and cultural level - it starts at the National Museum day off, when more than 400 museums open doors for free (or with a large discount) visit. Moreover, many museums prepare for these days special programs, lectures, viewing video materials and, of course, special expositions.

Amsterdam, as you know, is recognized as one of the largest art and museum centers in the world. You can visit the largest art museum in Holland and one of the best in Europe - Rijksmuseum (Rijksmuseum, 1885, Flemish painting of 15-17 centuries).

In addition, the doors of the Dutch Historical Museum in the eastern wing of the Rijksmuseum, the modern art museum Stedelijk (contemporary art), the Van Gogh Museum with the world's largest collection of his works (about 200 paintings and 580 drawings), the Rembrandt Museum in the 17th-century building on Iodenbreisstraat , The Historical Museum of Amsterdam.

Lovers of exotic exhibits aspire to the famous Museum of the Tropics, the Anne Frank Museum, numerous museums of diamond factories, the Heineken Brewing Company Museum, the Cat Cabinet, the Jewish Historical Museum in a joint building of 4 synagogues.

The most sophisticated connoisseurs of art and originality are sent to the only museum of hashish, marijuana and cannabis in Udezyds Ahterburgval in Europe, as well as a museum of tattoos located in the next building and many other, no less original collections.

According to materials of calend.ru