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Post by neilmcgowan on Apr 3, 2013 2:22:06 GMT -5
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is reopening next week, after rebuilding work that has dragged on for 10 years. SlideshowThe Museum has carefully maintained a constantly-changing 'temporary exhibition of highlights' in parts of the building that could be made accessible for short-term periods during the rebuilding. Even so, the majority of its exhibits have been off view, so it will be a welcome chance to see them. We've been in Amsterdam quite a bit for the past two years, connected with operatic involvement there. Hopefully we will get a chance to see the reopened Rijskmuseum sometime soon
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2013 2:43:55 GMT -5
Although the Rijksmuseum is about to become the greatest history-teaching institution anywhere in the world, Neil McGowan, it is not all homework. Around every corner is eye-popping merriment and pleasure. The “special collections” galleries are a stupendous open treasury, a gorgeously lit Dutch Aladdin’s cave in which kids of all ages can boggle at the geegaws: jewels, muskets, pikes, miniature tea services in silver; a whole fleet of model ships going back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, magic lanterns, costumes, glasses, those tiles, marvel piled on marvel; wonder on wonder, a fabulous, unending inebriation of stuff. Writing in the FT, Simon Schama concludes thus: FT - Simon Schama: the Rijksmuseum reopens
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2013 4:05:16 GMT -5
The last time I was there the place was full of peasants poking the paintings with their grubby fingers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2013 5:13:44 GMT -5
Then it was probably kleines c and the gang, Sydney Grew!
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