Het Scheepvaartmuseum
Het Scheepvaartmuseum (literally: "The Maritime Museum") is a maritime and Rijksmuseum ( Reichsmuseum ) for the history of seafaring in Amsterdam . Since 1973 the museum has been located in the Zeemagazijn ( sea magazine ), the former magazine of the Amsterdam Admiralty. This monumental building was designed by Daniel Stalpaert (1615–1676) and originally served as a warehouse . The earlier name was Historisch Scheepvaartmuseum .
history
In 1650, three artificial islands ("eilanden") were created in Amsterdam for shipyards, apartments and warehouses. On the island Kattenburg that arose Zeemagazijn the Admiralty Amsterdam , which opened the 1656th It served as a storage facility for cannons, ship equipment and much more. In 1791 the building was ravaged by fire and in 1795, after reconstruction, the Zeemagazijn became the warehouse of the Dutch Navy , which it officially remained until the early 1970s.
The museum was created on a private initiative for a Dutch maritime museum. That is why collectors, interested parties and sponsors founded the Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum (NHSMA) in 1916 as the future sponsor for the planned museum in order to bundle the activities. In 1921 a building in the Cornlis Schuytstraat behind what is now the “Museum Quarter” was acquired. The Queen, also patron of the Vereeniging , opened the Neederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in 1922 . Since the 1950s there has been an intensive search for a larger area for the significantly increased collection. But it was not until 1969 that the financing and planning for a move, renovation and restoration to the Zeemagazijn were secured. On April 13, 1973 the Scheepvaartmuseum was officially opened. Due to urgent renovation work, the museum was closed for four years from 2007. The Dutch architect Liesbeth van der Pol designed a “ master plan ” for the “new museum” with a reception hall, library, restaurant and larger exhibition rooms. The costs for this amounted to 58 million euros . The highlight of the renovated museum is the courtyard covered with thousands of glass fragments , known as the Open Pleyn .
In the 1970s, around 40,000 visitors were expected, shortly before the closure in 2007 there were already 200,000, with 300,000 visitors expected in the future. In the first year after the renovation there were 476,397 visitors.
On May 14, 2012 the museum won the Amsterdamse Architectuur Prijs ("Amsterdam Architecture Prize", AAP), the Gouden AAP ("Golden AAP)."
Replica in China
Replica
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A much smaller replica of the building in Gaoqiao (Chinese高桥) a plan city and suburb in the development area of the large municipality Pudong of Shanghai in the People's Republic of China , 31 ° 20 '24.8 " N , 121 ° 34' 22.3" O . The Hofwijck has been rebuilt right next to it.
Facilities
The museum organizes various exhibitions also for children and children's parties. There is a restaurant that is open seven days a week, as well as a “museum corner” for souvenirs and other items. The library, which is open Monday through Saturday, has around 60,000 books, some of which are more than 500 years old. As a reference library, it does not take part in loan transactions. The objects in the museum can be researched in the Maritime Digitaal database , which is freely accessible via the Internet . This includes models, illustrations, original objects and literature.
The “digital nieuwsbrief”, the journal of the Scheepvaartmuseum, appears four times a year. Together with universities and other institutions, the museum organizes various types of conferences and meetings.
Transport links
The Scheepvaartmuseum on Kattenburgplein can be reached on foot in around 15 minutes from Amsterdam Central Station . Bus number 22 stops at Kattenburgplein and bus number 48 in Kattenburgstraat (as of November 2012). Both city buses have a stop at the Nicolaaskerk (Nicolaaskirche), in front of the main train station.
See also
literature
- Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaartmuseum (Ed.): Roeien met de Riemen ... 75 Jaar Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaartmuseum. Jaarboek 1991. Amsterdam 1991, ISBN 90-71894-23-1 .
Web links
- Main page of the Scheepvaartmuseum (Dutch, English)
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam . In: amsterdam.info
- The Maritime Museum . In: holland.com
- Detailed map of the facilities of the Scheepvaartmuseum (PDF; 2.2 MB)
- Video at the opening of the Scheepvaartmuseum . Text: Dutch
Individual evidence
- ^ Google Books . Marine island . Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ^ Google Books . Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ↑ History of Het Scheepvaartmuseum ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ↑ Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam . Information from the Rijksgebouwendienst. Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ↑ Information from historiek.net ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ↑ Architecture Prize 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ↑ Information about the library of the Scheepvaartmuseum ( Memento of the original of September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ^ Maritime Digitaal database , accessed on October 27, 2012.
- ↑ City bus 22
- ↑ City bus 48
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 18 " N , 4 ° 54 ′ 53.4" E