Hello! October 2014, my first time in Amsterdam. That bike is famous Vanmoof, a Dutch brand. I was six years and ten months.
With Rembrandt in Amsterdam
CANAL TOUR, RIJKSMUSEUM, KALVERSTRAAT, RESTAURANTS
- My Amsterdam started with sightseeing boat on canals!
- I scouted Rembrandts in Rijksmuseum, and much more
- Happened early morning in Helsinki. Into a jet plane!
- After the jet flight I arrived Schiphol Airport
- Long walks in Schiphol Airport
- From Schiphol by train to Amsterdam center
- Here we come, Amsterdam! Railway Station behind us
- We took Kalverstraat shopping street to our hotel
- MaMa and I got the first canal-Wow!
- Actually many canal-Wows!
- Here a canal-Wow with BaBa
- Hello Amsterdam team at Hotel Mercure near Prinsengracht canal
- View from Room 228 in Hotel Mercure
- Bacon and eggs, croissants and more for breakfast
- We like relax Amsterdam!
- We found a 60-year old beef restaurant near hotel, excellent!
- Amsterdam feels right!
- Hello Amsterdam team at canals
- Canals of Amsterdam
- My new favourite spooky car!
- My Amsterdam had some autumn rains
- Smiles and a zoolander in Amsterdam
- I have walked in Amsterdamian shoes for 4 days
Next stop: Rijksmuseum.
Rijksmuseum entrance hall, the new Atrium, full of light.
Rijksmuseum entrance hall, the new Atrium.
- I got a Multimedia Guide to help us through the museum
Behind me: two paintings by Frans Hals (1582–1666).
• Portrait of a Couple (1622), oil on canvas 140cm × 166.5cm
• Portrait of Feyntje van Steenkiste (1635) (right)
- Multimedia Guide in Rijksmuseum was fun with touch screen
- But it had no GPS as in Paris Louvre Museum
Behind me: Rijksmuseum, the Hall of Honour, The Night Watch.
Rijksmuseum, the Hall of Honour.
• The Night Watch by Rembrandt
Rijksmuseum, the Hall of Honour.
Painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669).
• The Night Watch aka The Militia Company of Frans Banning Cocq
• Capt. Frans Banning Cocq in black with Lt. Willem van Ruytenburch
• Oil on canvas (1642), 365cm × 426cm (post cut in 1715), 337kg
Rijksmuseum, the Hall of Honour.
Rijksmuseum, the Hall of Honour.
Painter Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670).
• Militiamen of the Company of Captain Bicker and Lt Michielsz
• Oil on canvas (1639), 235cm × 750cm
Rijksmuseum, the Hall of Honour.
Painters: started by Frans Hals and finished by Pieter Codde.
• Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reael
• Painting is also know as "The Meagre Company" (1637)
Painter Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616).
• Captain Dirk Jacobsz Rosekrans and Lieutenant Pauw (1588)
• Oil on canvas, 208cm × 410cm
Painter Jacob Jordaens I (1593-1678), baroque paintings.
• Left: Portrait of Merchant Rogier Le Witer (1635)
• Middle: Portrait of Catharina Behaghel (1635)
• Right: Portrait of Magdalena de Cuyper (1636)
Painter Thomas de Keyser (1596-1667).
• Left: Three brothers named Hendrick, Johannes and Simon (c. 1630)
• Right: Group Portrait of an Unidentified Board of Governors (c. 1630)
Rijksmuseum, the 17th Century Gallery.
• Cannon of the Admiralty of Amsterdam (1615)
Rijksmuseum, the 17th Century Gallery.
- KaBOOM!!
Visitors were interested about glass in Rijksmuseum.
2000 glass objects in Rijksmuseum.
Chaise longue, lounge chair daybed in Rijksmuseum.
Four-poster bed in Rijksmuseum.
• Embroidered Chinese silk, the bed’s headboard and head curtain
• Wood 330cm × 175cm × 215cm, circa 1720
Chinese porcelain in Rijksmuseum.
- Hmm, porcelain violin with ivory head from China circa 1705
Delfts porcelain in Rijksmuseum.
Table in Rijksmuseum.
• By Pieter de Loose and Michel Verbiest, 1689
• Wood, 83.5cm × 145cm × 88cm
Layette cupboard in Rijksmuseum.
• Dutch, unknown cabinet maker, 1650-1675
• Oak and walnut, 178cm × 119cm × 57cm
Rijksmuseum, the 17th Century Gallery.
• Model of a Dutch 74-gun warship William Rex
• Wood 410cm × 460cm, real warships were twelve times larger
• By Cornelis Moesman and Adriaen de Vriend, 1698
Rijksmuseum's Pierre Cuypers Library, research library.
- Over 8000 objects in museum's collections
Rijkmuseum's Great Hall.
- To see these collections was really fun
- I give 9 points to Rijksmuseum, lack of GPS -1 point
Rijksmuseum entrance hall, the new Atrium.
- Rijksmuseum's front garden: tree, fountain and sculpture by Calder
- Hello Amsterdam team in Rijksmuseum's front garden
- The biggest tree in Rijksmuseum's front garden
- Probably this tree was here before Rembrandt was born
- Rijksmuseum's canal side garden
- Rijksmuseum's canal side garden with BaBa
- Abstract object by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) moves with the wind
- Coins to quartet which played in Rijksmuseum's tunnel
- Canals of Amsterdam
- Streets of Amsterdam
- Cafes of Amsterdam
- Drinks, croissants, pumpkin soup, beefs of Amsterdam
- Diamond bike of Amsterdam
- Orange wheels of Amsterdam...
- Over 600.000 bikes in Amsterdam and most go like crazy!
- Canalside wonders
- Canalside wonders
- Doing my logo dance to Amsterdam
- This Fiat 500 has the right size and looks
- Me.Want.Fiat.Not.Umpossible!
- Good time in Amsterdam
- Canals, canals, canals!
- Canal crazyness!
- Hello Amsterdam team says goodBye to Amsterdam!
- Going home, bye to Amsterdam!
- Seen it, been it, checked it, liked it. I AMsterdam
- Internet photo, Dam Square
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