Things in Amsterdam
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jackWhat did I see?
Rijksmuseum
The most famous gallery, I think. Some Van Gogh, Rembrant and Vermeer, and many other artists, including several I quite liked. Many faces which looked like FACES, not paintings.
Apparently Mondrian painted actual landscapes with windmills really well, as well as surprisingly artistic coloured squares! :) And in the 1900-1950 top floor, there's a whole plane!
The basement had temporary exhibitions, including large scale models of scores of Dutch navy ships, back when that was better than draughtsman drawings for recording HOW they were built.
It's very strange that taking photos (without flash, non-commercial) seems just normal -- in the UK I'm used to photos being forbidden for SOME reason.
Go in winter, in summer its impossibly crowded, you often can't even get in.
Science Centre
Full of hands on stuff which I usually love but wasn't in the mood for.
A couple of awesome things. A 20 ft tall water clock I linked to before, with a pendulum, and some magic way that the minutes tube emptying triggers the syphon action in the hours tube, um, somehow, even though they're only connected together at the bottom. I was lucky enough to be there at noon :)
And a factory system I still don't understand with a dozen workstations, where people could work sort-of together trying to sort coloured balls into containers, with a mix of "get delivered a container, sort the balls according to weight" and "use touchscreen to reconfigure a switch in the pneumatic system".
Harbour
Just outside the science centre are a collection of restored ships, AIUI by people whose hobby it was to buy them and restore them to specific period (they'd often been working in the meantime), and basically just taken over this corner of the harbour, which is now official.
Microbe Museum
Awesome, but maybe because I went with Rachel :)
Rijksmuseum
The most famous gallery, I think. Some Van Gogh, Rembrant and Vermeer, and many other artists, including several I quite liked. Many faces which looked like FACES, not paintings.
Apparently Mondrian painted actual landscapes with windmills really well, as well as surprisingly artistic coloured squares! :) And in the 1900-1950 top floor, there's a whole plane!
The basement had temporary exhibitions, including large scale models of scores of Dutch navy ships, back when that was better than draughtsman drawings for recording HOW they were built.
It's very strange that taking photos (without flash, non-commercial) seems just normal -- in the UK I'm used to photos being forbidden for SOME reason.
Go in winter, in summer its impossibly crowded, you often can't even get in.
Science Centre
Full of hands on stuff which I usually love but wasn't in the mood for.
A couple of awesome things. A 20 ft tall water clock I linked to before, with a pendulum, and some magic way that the minutes tube emptying triggers the syphon action in the hours tube, um, somehow, even though they're only connected together at the bottom. I was lucky enough to be there at noon :)
And a factory system I still don't understand with a dozen workstations, where people could work sort-of together trying to sort coloured balls into containers, with a mix of "get delivered a container, sort the balls according to weight" and "use touchscreen to reconfigure a switch in the pneumatic system".
Harbour
Just outside the science centre are a collection of restored ships, AIUI by people whose hobby it was to buy them and restore them to specific period (they'd often been working in the meantime), and basically just taken over this corner of the harbour, which is now official.
Microbe Museum
Awesome, but maybe because I went with Rachel :)