The Van Gogh Museum

Amsterdam, Paulus Potterstraat, 7

Museums of the Netherlands The largest collection of works by Van Gogh was collected in the Museum of Amsterdam, built by a famous Dutch architect in the 1920s. In the building there are more than 200 paintings and drawings, as well as letters of that famous correspondence between the artist and his brother.

Rembrandt Museum

Amsterdam, Jodenbreestraat, 4

Museums of the Netherlands At the moment Rembrandt House Museum has restored the atmosphere of those times: the kitchen, living rooms and the artist's workshop, and his collection, in addition to the works of Rembrandt himself, is represented by paintings of his pupils and teacher Peter Lastman, and one of the halls is dedicated to the engraving technique.

National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Kattenburgerplein, 1

Museums of the Netherlands In the exposition of the Netherlands Maritime Museum you can see: wooden models of ships, paintings and drawings, parts of ship rigging and many documents. A copy of the ship of the East India Company is moored near the museum building.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Stadhouderskade, 42

Museums of the Netherlands The main purpose of visiting the Rijksmuseum is, of course, to see pictures of famous artists such as Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Vermeer and Rembrandt. The culmination of the excursion will be a visit to the "Gallery of Glory" where, in the silent surroundings of hundreds of eyes of tourists, Rembrandt's enchanting night watch "Night Watch" rises above the impermanence of the world.

The Hermitage in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Amstel, 51

Museums of the Netherlands In 2004, the Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and the Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky opened a branch of the State Hermitage Museum. The museum exposition is located on 4000 square meters of exhibition area.

Louvemann Automotive Museum

Haag, Leidsestraatweg, 57

Museums of the Netherlands Automobile Museum of Louvemann is not as famous as other retro-auto museums in Europe, but the collection of it is very, very deserving of inspection - even if you are not an obsessed motorist. His collection, which today consists of 240-odd cars, began to collect in 1934

Amstelkring

Amsterdam, Oudezijds Voorburgwal, 40

Museums of the Netherlands In the center of the Red Lanterns quarter, in the former home of the town dweller Jan Hartman, the Catholic church, nicknamed the temple of Our Lover Heer op Solder, is preserved. The body and the interior are carefully restored; on the lower floors - pictures of 17-18 centuries and church utensils.

Anne Frank House

Amsterdam, Prinsengracht, 267

Museums of the Netherlands Anna Frank is a Jewish girl who died in the Belsen camp shortly before the end of the war, which kept a diary describing the life in the shelter during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. In 1957, the fund of her name opened a memorial museum in the same house where the Frank family had been hiding from the Germans for two years.

Peter the Great's house in Zaandam

Zaandam, Krimp, 23

Museums of the Netherlands The most interesting tourist object of Zaandam, of course, is Peter I's Lodge. In this little house Tsar Peter lived secretly, working at a shipyard as a carpenter and comprehending the science of shipbuilding.

The Historical Museum of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Kalverstraat, 92; Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, 357

Museums of the Netherlands The museum dedicated to the history of Amsterdam is a whole architectural complex with old courtyards and modern annexes. In the exposition there is an old painting, photographs, objects of urban life.

The Van Lon Museum

Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 672

Museums of the Netherlands The exposition of the Van Lon Museum is a collection of family portraits, a collection of Oriental and Dutch porcelain, as well as restored residential interiors with unique 18th-century furniture.

Amsterdam Canal Museum

Amsterdam, Herengracht, 386

Museums of the Netherlands The museum is dedicated to the Ring of the Canals of Amsterdam. There are interactive excursions, where tourists are told the most interesting facts and events related to the 400-year history of urban channels.

Madame Tussauds Museum in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Dam, 20

Museums of the Netherlands The Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam became the first branch of the world-famous London Wax Museum. The official opening of the museum in Amsterdam took place in 1971, and already in 1991 the museum moved to its current house on Dam Square - in the heart of the city.

Erotic Museum in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 54

Museums of the Netherlands Amsterdam - a city of all non-traditional. Therefore, not to visit one of the most famous museums will be an unforgivable mistake. All that is associated with the eroticism of all times and cultures, there is.

Escher Museum

Haag, Lange Voorhout, 74

Museums of the Netherlands The Escher Museum has been opened in The Hague since 2002. It occupies the old building of the Langhe Voorhaut Palace, built in the 18th century and in itself quite interesting. Queen Emma used the palace as her winter residence until her death in 1934.

Museon in The Hague

Haag, Stadhouderslaan 37

Museums of the Netherlands Museon is a museum dedicated to science and culture, whose collections are associated with geology, biology, archeology, history, science and ethnology. The idea of ​​its creation appeared in 1904 in the head of the editor-in-chief of the city newspaper: he came up with a museum where children could learn more about the industry.

The Municipal Museum of The Hague

Haag, Stadhouderslaan, 41

Museums of the Netherlands Gemeentemuseum was founded in 1935 as a museum of contemporary art - not only artistic, but also decorative and applied. The museum occupies a building specially built for it in the style of art deco just off the city center. It includes a museum including a photo.

Park Madurodam

Hague, George Maduroplein 1

Museums of the Netherlands Park Madurodam is not in vain considered one of the main entertainment of the city. Opened in 1952, a miniature town developed, expanded and now it is a whole park, which you can see from the side - a rather interesting sight. The

Stedelek Museum

Amsterdam, Museumplein, 10

Museums of the Netherlands The Dutch Stedelek Museum presents all the famous trends in contemporary art. Here you can see pictures of such masters as Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse, Judd, De Coining and Cunellis.

The culture of the Netherlands is diverse in its essence: in it, as if in a mirror, reflects the regional differences of the country and foreign influence, and all thanks to trade, the Dutch research spirit and the influx of immigrants. For centuries, the liberal and tolerant Netherlands played the role of a significant cultural center, whose zenith of glory was the Dutch golden age.

Until 1830, the Dutch and the Flemish formed a single nation, the split of which begins to occur in connection with religious wars and the Netherlands bourgeois revolution. Most artists of the time, including Peter Brueghel the elder, are considered Flemish, despite the fact that they were born in the historical Netherlands.

Undoubtedly, the most famous Dutch artists of the Renaissance are the painter Hieronymus Bosch, whose works are exhibited in the Museum of Boymans van Böningen in Rotterdam, and the Limburgi brothers, three miniaturists, famous for creating the "Magnificent Watchmaker of the Duke of Berry".
At the end of the 19th century, the name of the Netherlands post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh, with a significant collection of works at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, thundered all over the world.

At the end of the 16th century for religious reasons, as well as due to the economic growth of the Netherlands, many artists fled Flanders to the Northern Netherlands. It was during this period that the golden age of Dutch painting flourishes, and the most famous Dutch artist is Rembrandt, whose collections are represented in several museums of the country (Rembrandt House-Museum and the State Museum in Amsterdam, the Royal Mauritshuis Gallery in The Hague).

At the end of the 19th century, the name of the Netherlands post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh was throbbing all over the world, with a large collection of works by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Other famous artists of the century are the painters Joseph Yisrael and Laurence Alma-Tadema, landscape painter Anton Maouve and impressionist George Hendrik Breitner. 20th century gives the Netherlands many fine artists, including abstract artist Pete Mondrian, as well as representatives of the avant-garde movement "COBRA" Karel Appel and Corneille.

The priceless works of these and other lesser-known Dutch artists are exhibited in the largest museums and galleries of the world, among which the museums of the Netherlands occupy a place of honor - after all this country generated the most talented geniuses.