Travel Reference
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Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum
Museums
Rijksmuseum
The world's greatest
collection of 17th-century Dutch
art is housed in this grand
municipal art museum
- and there's so much
more to see besides
(see pp12-15)
.
Museum Amstelkring
The 17th-century domestic
interiors would be fascinating in
themselves, but the astonishing
thing about this
historic canal house is
the secret Catholic
church hidden on its
upper floors
(see
pp20-1)
.
Van Gogh
Museum
The permanent home
for hundreds of works
by this troubled artist
also displays work by
his contemporaries
(see pp16-19)
.
Stedelijk
Museum
At time of writing,
the national museum
of modern art, in its
specially designed
building by A W
Weissman, is closed
for major renovation
work - it is due to
reopen in 2005. Until then, part
of its dynamic collection, which
includes works by Matisse,
Chagall, Picasso, Mondriaan, de
Kooning and Gerrit Rietveld, will
be displayed in temporary
exhibitions at the old TPG Post
building, Oosterdokskade 3
(Map R2)
.
Amsterdams
Historisch
Museum
First a convent, then the city
orphanage, now a wonderful
museum charting the history of
Amsterdam and, in particular, its
meteoric rise during the Golden
Age
(see pp24-7)
.
Stedelijk Museum
Anne Frankhuis
This world-famous yet
movingly simple museum is
dedicated to the young diarist
who hid here from the Nazis
with her family
(see pp32-3)
.
Museum Van Loon
Another canal-house-turned-
museum, the Van Loon recreates
high-society life in the 18th
century
(see pp30-31)
.
Amsterdams Historisch Museum
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