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 "The Gouden Leeuw", Willem
van de Velde (Younger) by breughel, 4 more photos
The Historic Museum combines history and arts over 3 periods in 24 rooms of the former Civic Orphanage:
Period 1350-1550 at rooms 1-3 showing the story of the small settlement on the river Amstel.
Surprising are the excavated objects found in cesspits such as clay pipe fragments. The AHM has 200.000 archaeological objects of all kinds found in Amsterdam.
Period 1550-1815 is certainly the most interesting with rooms 4-12 who show a large number of art works of this period which includes the Golden Century.
Most interesting are models of shipyards and maritime paintings showing the Dutch maritime power of that age. Famous is the painting of Willem van de Velde the Younger "The Gouden Leeuw on the IJ at Amsterdam", (1686). This was once the former flagship of Admiral Cornelis Tromp.
Interesting is the model (1742) of an eastindiaman from the VOC (Dutch East India Company) being transported on a ship's camel. These were long caissons that encased the ship's hull. When full of air they raised the ship out of the water. The Amsterdam harbour was difficult for deep vessels to enter due to sandbanks.
From this period are also on display a large number of good paintings with landscapes, winter landscapes, town views, church interiors, still life and the famous civic guard paintings on which I will come back.
Period 1815-2000 with rooms 13-24 starts at the end of the French rule under Napoleon. The visitor will find here a beautiful doll-house as well as paintings from the very good Dutch Impressionist School.
It shows the happy times as well as the drama's (the terrible winter of 1944) of the modern Amsterdam.
There is a grand tour and a short one of the highlights.
Open: Monday to Friday 10 - 17 h
Saturday and Sunday 11 - 17 h
Price : 7,00 € (65+ 5,25€) (6-18 yr. 3,50€)
Free with museum card (can be bought here).
Photos are allowed.
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 "Anatomy lesson by Dr. F.
Ruysch" Adriaen Backer by breughel
In the 17th century, Amsterdam and the United Provinces were among Europe’s foremost scientific centres. The quest for knowledge and for anatomical knowledge in particular, was not seen to be in conflict with religion. Even so, the dissection of a human body was not seen as a natural act. Permission was granted only sparingly, and only to well-known members of the universities, who would be allowed to perform dissections for teaching purposes or as public demonstrations.
We can see "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Jan Deijman," (1656) by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Famous are the anatomy lessons of Dr. Frederik Ruysch by Adriean Backer (1670) and another of a child by Jan Van Neck.
Ruysch a prominent surgeon, obstetrician, and anatomist was the chief anatomist of the Amsterdam surgeons' guild.
Impressive these anatomy lessons!
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 "Compagnie van kapitein Joan
Huydecoper" G.Flick by breughel, 1 more photos
The militias regularly commissioned group portraits, so-called militia paintings.
Today some 125 militia paintings survive. Amsterdam and Haarlem were the major centre of production.
The famous "Night Watch" of Rembrandt is one among many but is unique because it shows a Civic Guard Company moving, marching on, while the others are mainly static.
The members of these civic guards had to pay to be portrayed. It is known that in Haarlem the price was about 60 Florin of that time per person. For the "Night Watch "the price was about 100 Florin per person. In the 17th c. a weaver earned about 200 Florin per year.
Ordinary guardsmen did not appear in a civic guard painting. Having to pay for their own weapons was enough.
15 huge paintings of the Amsterdam Civic Guards are on (free) display in the "Schuttersgalerij" Civic Guards’ Gallery which is a glass-roofed walkway (closes at 17 h). Best known is "De Compagnie van kapitein Joan Huydecoper" (1648) by Govert Flick.
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Being housed in the former civic orphanage, the Amsterdam Historical Museum kept the "Regenten kamer", where the governors of the "Burgersweeshuis" orphanage held their meetings, as it was at the end of the 19th.c. with furniture and paintings of the 17th.c.
The museum has a number of items, mainly paintings, on display concerning this aspect of the "social security" in Amsterdam some centuries ago. At this civic orphanage were only admitted children from "poorters" or burghers of the city.
Other children were accommodated in the many religious orphanages.
Plague epidemics in those times left many orphans. A numbers of paintings show how they were dressed in a red and black uniform, fed, their daily life.
Surprising is too see that children did drink beer at table. It was a beer with a very low alcohol degree, by the brewing process and cooking of the grain most bacteria's present in the water were destroyed so that it was less dangerous for health to drink beer than just water. The orphans' diet was generous and there was low mortality.
The orphanages were run by a set of regents or regentesses who were almost without exception individuals appointed from the Amsterdam elite. Matrons were responsible for the daily running.
A number of large paintings show the regents or regentessen. Remarkable are the paintings "Clothing the Orphans in the Deaconate Orphanage" 1657 by Jan Victors and "Regenten" by Cl. Moyaert.
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 © www.ahm.nl by codrutz
Included in the Amsterdam Pass there is also a (must do) visit to the Amsterdam Museum of History (Amsterdam Historisch Museum). There you will travel back in time from the first years of the founding of the small village and the first dam on the Amstel River, trough its development as a great merchant sea port, trading commodities and expanding to what now it became also one of the greatest ports in the world, but also one of the nicest cities, much due to its canals.
My advice is: Do not miss the Amsterdam Historisch Museum! Leave a Comment Phone: +31-20-5231822Directions: Monday to Friday, 10.00-17.00 Weekends 11.00-17.00 Adults: 6euro Childrens (6-15): 3euro Childrens (0-5): free Family ticket: 15euro 65+ pass: 4,5euro Groups over 15p: 4,5euro Free with the Amsterdam PassWebsite: http://www.ahm.nl
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 Orphanage gable stone by pieter_jan_v
The museum has exhibitons, a permanent collection & library and a movie theater.
Visiting hours:
Mo - Fr: 10AM - 5PM
Sa - Su: 11AM - 5PM
Admission: Euro 8.00 Leave a Comment Phone: +31-20-5231822Directions: From the DAM square go East into the Kalverstraat (main shopping street). After about 300 metrs the museum is at your right.Website: http://www.ahm.nl
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 regents room by tompt
A small part is dedicated to the city orphanage and is free.... It are three rooms, on eroom will show what the orphans looked like, the second room is the regents room, and behind that is the third room dedicated to van Speyk. He is a dutch hero, who blew himself and his ship up to prevent the enemie from capturing them. Van Speyk was a former Amsterdam orphanage boy.
You can reach these rooms by going into the museum and instead of going left to the cassier go right straight into the rooms. Leave a Comment
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 by tomptLeave a Comment Phone: +31-20-5231822Directions: Walk under the entrance gate in the Kalverstraat and the gallery will appear on your left.Website: http://www.ahm.nl
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 amsterdam history museum by doug48Phone: +31-20-5231822Directions: nieuwe zijde district, tram 1.2.4.5.9,13,14,16,17,24,25.Website: http://www.ahm.nl
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