Museum of the Month?

I’ve always taken it for granted finding modern art in this building, it is not a museum but a University Hospital. The AMC accommodates the largest permanently exhibited collection of Dutch visual art of the period after 1945.

Even “the junk” hanging from the ceiling of the Feet Hall is art.
The basis for this was laid during [...]

Museum of the Month May #4

There are still a lot of museums to cover here in Chicago but I kept it today to only one.
I met Steven, a fellow blogger from the north of Chicago, around 12 pm at the hotel. We drove in his car to the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago next to Millenium Park and Grant Park. [...]

Museum of the Month May #3

I know, I know, it starts to sound the same that title, but that’s what you get when you squeeze in as much culture in such a short span of time. O, and I did go to the movies again too.
After last night’s dinner I had breakfast too at the hotel restaurant, no [...]

Museum of the Month May #2

New day, new museum. Getting in the taxi to go to the Museum of Science and Industry and the time it took before I got there, I almost thought I would arrive in Gary, Indiana. I’m kiddin’  you all I know I was still in South Chicago.
Again a museum with everything for everyone, from [...]

Museum of the Month May #1

As a start of diving into culture I started at the Field Museum on Museum Campus. The shear size of the building is already impressing and it’s content an eye opener. Dinosaur skeletons, life in far-away places, precious stones and their settings. I’m sure we have a museum like that too, I think of Naturalis [...]

Museum of the Month – March

In the 6 years that I do the job of webmaster for the Guild this is the first time that I really went to a press preview of a new exhibition. Located on the banks of Lake IJssel near Enkhuizen, in the Northwest of my province is the Zuiderzee Museum, a museum dedicated to life on [...]

Museum of the Month – February

On Thursday I had a meeting with two of my fellow webmasters of other Guilds, the association of purses & shoe designers & -makers and the association of milliners. In 2007 our Guilds worked together for the first time during a national event called  Mode van Top tot Teen  [Fashion from Top to Toe]. We [...]

Museum of the Month – January

Just off today’s main shopping street [Kalverstraat] there are two oasis’s of silence. One of them is the Amsterdam Historical Museum.
At this site the Convent of Saint Lucy was founded in 1414 and was situated between the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal and the Begijnensloot. Back then it was one of as many as 21 convents in Amsterdam.
On [...]

Future Museum of the Month

Museum “De Weem” in Westeremden [North Groningen]
Henk Helmantel’s still life paintings continue in the strong figurative tradition of the Netherlands. The quality of his observation and his accomplished technique invite comparison with the still lifes of the 17th-Century Dutch masters. They really are that good.

Yet Helmantel’s work is surprisingly modern, with lean compositional dynamics, and [...]

Museum of the Month – November

When I drove off from home, it was more like an endurence test for the scooter to see how far I could drive. Until Friday I could reach Buiksloterdijk with its Captains houses, but couldn’t drive back.
This time however I could drive all the way along the North-Holland waterway [5km] to the ferry, across the [...]