Amsterdam Art and Culture The city of Amsterdam is an ancient city that has embraced the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Europe. The seat of government in The Hague, but Amsterdam is considered the capital and is home to the Netherlands? royal family. The Dutch are also a cultured people who enjoy the finer things in life when it comes to art.
Amsterdam is a city of less than one million inhabitants, but has more than 50 theaters and movie theaters, two ballet companies, a symphony orchestra and many museums.
The Leidseplein is the theater district of Amsterdam. Many cinemas theater are many themes that each carries a certain type of movie? House of art, film noir, in English only, news, etc. The Dutch race, the movie in him? s original language with subtitles in Dutch dialogue, so that visitors can often find a movie in their native language, especially English.
The various theaters make the best and latest in operas, symphonies, dances, concerts and various others. It is not uncommon to find a play that is played on a square or a park. There is even a theater that specializes in programs for the younger generation.
The scene of Dutch art covers everything from graffiti to the works of masters, both within museums and galleries and the streets.
About 50 of more than 400 museums in the Netherlands are located in the city of Amsterdam and part of the city? Most popular tourist attractions. Besides the typical works of the masters, modern art, cinema and photography, some of these museums are located in Amsterdam are the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, a botanical museum, a museum dedicated to the Dutch resistance during the Second World War, the Heineken Experience, the Ajax Museum (Dutch soccer team), a barge museum, a torture museum, museum devoted to sex and eroticism, NEMO hands on science museum for children that is housed in a building shaped like a boat, wearing a museum, a museum Bible, the Tropical Museum and the Jewish Museum. There are also several art galleries in the city.
The largest museum Rijksmuseum, which houses the Dutch art dating back as far as some early religious works and, of course, the masters.
Located in the heart of the city is the home of Anne Frank, where the teenager wrote her diary while hiding from the Nazis? S with his family. The original diary is exposed at home.
The Houseboat Museum is a real barge similar to those used by some inhabitants of Amsterdam. The boat is set up, as if the family where just going shopping or the movies and return at any time.
In front of the Anne Frank museum tulips. The small museum offers a multimedia presentation of the famous flower, including its history.
For those interested in the art of the drink for adults, there is the Heineken Experience, which provides everything for the famous beer. And there's vodka museum that not only gives a history of potato alcoholic and a display of bottles of vodka unusual, but a bar where visitors can enjoy the famous Russian concoction. There is also a cafe and a museum of tea and coffee tea lover.
The Jewish Museum tells the story of Jews in the Netherlands and is housed four synagogues, some dating back hundreds of sixteen.
Located on the banks of Red Light District is the Amstelkring museum has exhibits of art and religion.
Visitors to St. Petersburg, Russia can see some of the works housed in the Hermitage along the Neva River, but it is almost impossible to see everything housed in the palace walls. However, visitors can visit the Hermitage Amsterdam in Amsterdam, which has two exhibitions a year.
TIN-Theatre Museum presents the history of the theater back to the Middle Ages. And the museum has a historical film about cinema history ..
Posted on January 20, 2010.
