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Dutch inventor behind the cassette tape Lou Ottens dies
Aged 94, Lou Ottens, the dutch inventor behind the cassette tape, has passed away. Lou breathed his last at his home in Duizel, Netherlands.
Thus far no reason has been attributed to his death. An...
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The girl with the pearl earring as you've never seen her before
The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which houses Vermeer's famous painting, is one of first in the world to be fully digitized. Here's how (and what to see)
Like so many museums around the world, th...
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Van Gogh’s Sunset at Montmajour unveiled in Amsterdam
The newly discovered work by Van Gogh unveiled in Amsterdam on 9 September will be on view at the Van Gogh Museum from 24 September.
It is the first discovery of an unknown work by the Dutch artist...
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22-23 June sees a major weekend celebration to mark the reopening of Amsterdam’s three major museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk and the Van Gogh at the Museumplein hub. There will be late-n...
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The remodernised Rijksmuseum will reopen to the public on 13 April after its official inauguration by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, one of her last public appointments before she retires at the en...
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The Van Gogh museum closes for restoration
The Van Gogh will be closed from 24 September 2012 to 25 April 2013 for renovations.
During that period about 75 of the 200 works will be on display at the Hermitage, Amsterdam, Amstel 51, in an ex...
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk reopens to the public
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk museum was officially re-opened by Queen Beatrix on 22 September and opened to the public again after ten years on 23 September.
The new part of the building includes a...
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Rijksmuseum to reopen April 2013
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which has been under restoration for most of the last decade, will reopen to the public on 14 April 2013. During renovations and alterations only the Philips wing of the...
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Rijksmuseum cycle path to reopen
The cycle path under Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum will open again, once the renovations to the museum are concluded in 2013.
The museum administration wanted to stop the path being used in order t...
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Arts cuts damage Netherlands culture
The decision by the government to cut the Netherlands’ arts council subsidies by 25 per cent over the next four years means that some orchestras, theatre groups and dance companies will no longe...
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Two Dutch bookshops have been named among the 20 most beautiful bookshops in the world. The Selexyz Bookstore in Maastricht heads the list and the American Book Center in Amsterdam, which also has a b...
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Hidden Goya portrait discovered in Amsterdam
A fully-finished second painting by Spanish master Goya has been discovered beneath one of his masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
High-intensity x-ray technology, developed by technicia...
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Rembrandt honoured in Amsterdam
Visitors to Amsterdam will now be able to follow a tourist trail unveiled in honour of 17th-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn, reports Dutch News. The trail will follow the path the artist, who died i...
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Anne Frank tree to be donated to museums
Pieces of the giant 170 year-old horse chestnut tree written about by Anne Frank in her diaries are likely to be donated to Jewish museums in Berlin, New York, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam, reports Dutch Ne...
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Stolen Bijbels Museum artefacts found in New York
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has recovered seven ancient Egyptian items stolen from Amsterdam
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After twists and turns worthy of a Hollywood movie, the 17th-century Dutch masterpiece, The Bend in the Herengracht near the Nieuwe Spielgelstraat in Amsterdam, by Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde, is now...
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Amsterdam City of Art in 2009.
The opening of two important museums and the staging of numerous exclusive exhibitions have led the Netherlands Tourist Board to declare Amsterdam a City of Art in 2009.
The new Hermitage Amsterdam...
