Thursday, August 29, 2013

Hep Scheep Vaart Museum, Amsterdam...

Every time I look at this name or try and say it, I think of sheep. But it's not sheep - it's ships - Hep Scheep Vaart Museum, The National Maritime Museum. The building, constructed in 1656 as the arsenal for the Amsterdam Admiralty, looks like this...


Stunning eh? Very simple, elegant and, to my mind, much more appealing than the florid architecture of the tourist-pleasing Rijksmuseum or Station Amsterdam Centraal.

 The exhibits are just as stunning, using interactive technology and state-of-the-art display techniques. A whole room of the most gorgeous globes...

And a huge display of model ships through the ages...

Lots to keep the children busy including a model of the East Indiaman Amsterdam in which they can fire cannons, sleep in hammocks and generally run amok...

I succumbed to coffee and appeltaart (with slagroom) again and drooled over the lights in the cafe area...

I'm not sure how much actual light they provide but they look great!
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4 comments:

  1. Pukeko GAugust 29, 2013 at 10:56 PM

    The building is sitting on the water and the lights look like cricket stumps :)

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  2. Jane RobertsonAugust 30, 2013 at 8:10 AM

    Hehe - I won't see the lights in the same way now ;-)

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  3. Jane RobertsonAugust 30, 2013 at 8:10 AM

    Hehe - I won't see the lights in the same way now ;-)

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  4. Jane RobertsonAugust 30, 2013 at 8:11 AM

    For some reason blogger is duplicating all my comments :(

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