Royal Tropical Institute

The Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, it is an impressive entrance in this big hall.

There are always many interesting exhibitions.

These photos are from the archives of 2015,  it feels I haven't been in a museum for ages.

Want to know more look "here"

Piece of art

When you feel a bid bored in Pandemic times, take some clothes pegs.

Put them together.

And make a piece of art!

Not mine but  seen in the Coda Museum  in Apeldoorn long ago in 2015.

Linking to "Our World Tuesday"

Portraits

The Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam does not have only Russian art items. 

In the basement are some huge portraits of old Dutch masters. This time they made a funny twist to put some photo portraits of wellknown Dutch people between the paintings, dressed in the costumes of a historical person.

Ruud Gullit was a famous professional footballer as you can read here.

Juwels

Here some items of the Juwel exhibition of the Tsar.

There were also some dresses to see, I like this velvet one.

I made the photosl with my I-phone that went very well.

Shadows

The backgarden of the "House Marseille" photography museum situated in two canalhouses dating from the 17th century in Amsterdam.

Linking to "Shadow Shot Sunday2"

Rejected photos

I am a bit out of new photos so I scrolled through the archives and found these one's from last year's fashion exhibition about Hubert de Givenchy. I choose for the rejected photos because someone was popping up in front of my camera.

There are always unexpected passersby when making a photo.

Another passerby but she suits very well with the dresses.

Hope you enjoyed the series.

Women of the World

 At the exhibition 1001 women in the Amsterdam Museum, there was a room with the walls covered with names of important Dutch women to mention.

With stickers you could add your own choice.

Linking to "Signs, signs2"

Exhibition

This is an image made by the Jewish Polish-American photographer David Seymour in 1948 in Rome of a crowd listening to a speech by socialist Pietro Nenni at a Basilica di Massenzio.

In the Jewish Historical Museum I saw an exhibition of his impressive photos of Europe short after the end of World War II.

You can read more about it here at their website.

This is a young Sophia Loren at her home in Naples in 1955.

Linking to "Our World Tuesday"

Pieces

In the Allard Pierson Museum I watched the remains of old Amsterdam digged up from the underworld. People in the 16th and 17th Century had no toilets but cesspools where they threw everything in from excrements to garbage and also broken pots and cups. Lots of China porcelain that was brought to Amsterdam by the trade seafarers to the East around 1600 was found in the ground. The museum has an open restauration workplace where schoolchildren can sort out the shards that belong together.

Window view

A view through the window from the Allard Pierson Museum at the Rokin in Amsterdam.

And through another window.

Pierson Museum

Windows of the senate chamber in the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam.

It is an archaelogical museum of the University of Amsterdam.

A Sarcophagus from Egypt with some explanation here below.

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Reflections and inspirations

A reflection in the Central Museum in Utrecht at the exhibition of fashiondesigner Jan Taminiau.

This shows some scenes where he gets his inspiration from as here the reflection in the pool.

With this as a result.

Linking to "Weekend Reflections"

Fashion

I went to a great exhibition of  Dutch fashion designer Jan Taminiau (1975).

He is known for his use of traditional handicraft and production techniques, the application of unique and original materials and for his outspoken sens of aesthetics. Our Queen Maxima wears often his magical evening dresses as these two.

At the end of the exhibition you could have a closer look at the handicraft works with these examples.

Well,  a post for the ladies today I think.

Marble shirt

An object of the exhibition "The American Dream" in The Drenthe Museum in Assen I visited last month. It is called HOLOS and made out of marble by Jud Nelson (1943). 

Here the explanation: 

" Everyone is familiar with the impressive marble statues of ancient gods and emperors. Using the same material the artist Jud Nelson here made a deceptively real replica of an ordinary white shirt. In executing such a banal object in costly Carrara marble. Nelson casts a wry wink to antiquity and high art"

The Largest Doll's House

The Doll's House in yesterday's post was inspired by this house from the 18th century part of the Drenthe Museum in Assen. They call it the "Largest Doll's House in the Netherlands" as you can imagine you walk through the Doll House yourself. Here the entrance with the hall.

It is all decorated in its original state, with the beautiful dining room for special diners.

The living room with the bedstead with shutters in the back.

It was the only room with a stove to keep the residents warm.

Here they slept in the living room with two in the bedstead and closed the shutters to keep warm.

The kitchen in the cellar.

The sidetable in the livingroom with "fake" pastries that looked really tasty.

Doll House

A doll house in the Drenthe museum in Assen. It dates from 1777 and belonged to Rolina van Lier. She was the wife of the highest boss of the taxes in the Province Drenthe.

Museum gardens

Garden of the photography museum "House Marseille" in Amsterdam.

Garden of the Drenthe Museum in Assen.