Show museums, art exhibitions, displays

[LtDave]

inside, at the top, of the Arc de Triomphe

 

[Jack Dawe]

Museum of a monastery in Crete
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Presumably that's God creating Eve while Adam slept, but, if so, who gave Adam that neat haircut?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Presumably that's God creating Eve while Adam slept, but, if so, who gave Adam that neat haircut?

Not to mention his neatly trimmed beard!

 

[greatgrandma]

When we were in Alkmaar we went to the Stedelijk museum (it was a rainy day).

The exhibit was on the -1 floor. That is it was in the basement. There was an elevator. The main part of the museum was called THE VICTORY!!! Alkmaar is very proud of the fact that they were the first Dutch city to withstand the Spanish siege during the Eighty Years' War. There was a seven week siege which ended on October 8, 1573 This eventually led to the creation of the independent Republic of the United Netherlands and the heyday of the Golden Age.

The last part of the main exhibit was "The Golden Age" . To show their gratitude for the city's loyal stand, William of Orange and the States of Holland awarded Alkmaar the Weight House revenues. Painting of the Weight House 1660. It was mainly cheese that was weighed and traded here. In 1679 a record 500,000 pounds was traded in a single day. That was in 1581 and it launched an economic boom: Alkmaar's own Golden Age.

Painting of the weigh house by an unknown artist

Gold from the Golden Age

Nijenburg Spherical Clock 1690

Judgement of Count Willem the Good 1618

Pierre Gole art cabinet with floral motifs

 

[fotoi]

Inside the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.

 

[greatgrandma]

The Victory - Alkmaar

Battle painting


This is what one of the presentations said:

Part of the video presentation


The retreat
"In the early morning on the eighth day of the month, all the Spaniards left. And so the siege of Alkmaar which had lasted for seven weeks and which had cost the Spaniards huge sums of money and material damage and would be to their everlasting shame and discredit, was lifted.

Part of the video presentation


By contrast, God brought the city of Alkmaar prestige in their joyous victory and celebrated triumph, so the city might justifiably and honourably be counted among the foremost cities of Holland."
There is also a display of a 2010 excavation in Alkmaar where archaeologists discovered skeletons in mass graves - including a skull with bullet hole.

Two skeletons from a small mass grave 1573

Officers of the Old Civic Guard in Landscape 1613


Officers of the Old Civic Guard in a Landscape 1613 - There is no other painting of civic guardsmen on a day out. In the distance is Alkmaar's Great Church, and the artist is in the center with his wife.

Officers of the old Civic Guard 1657. Standing proudly in the center the captains Jacob Baert and Cornelis Groot

 

[fotoi]

Rome Museum of Modern Art

 

[greatgrandma]

Festival Park on Roanoke Island, NC

We went to the Adventure Museum part of the park. This is called an Adventure Museum because the displays are set up for participation. You can dress in Elizabethan costume and learn how 16th-century sailors navigated their ships.

Sailor on the prow of a vessel inside the museum

There are exhibits on an Outer Banks Life-saving Station - much-needed in the early 1900s, when more than 1,000 ships wrecked in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. You can (as I did) "See if you could make your living in a traditional manner on the Outer Banks by “hunting” ducks in our sink box blind (The ducks are up above in the rafters - They had a laser target which told whether you had a hit and I didn't do too badly),

Me, pretending to shoot ducks

or shop around an early 1900s era general store.

Shelves of the General Store

We did walk around the reconstructed village

Camp set-up -

 

[fotoi]

Tower of London

 

[inphoto]

Caryatides, Acropolis Museum, Athens
Waiting for the one that's missing

 

[fotoi]

Tower of London

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

In the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, a model of a Javanese Marketplace, Java c 1830-1860.
Materials used: bread dough, paint, metal, glass, cedar, veneered with Cuban mahogany.

 

[greatgrandma]

In Alkmaar's Grote Kerk

Bob took some photos of a ship hanging in the church. This was unexpected. According to tradition, this is the scale model of a ship from 1667 called "De Ruyter mijn naam" (De Ruyter is my name), which refers to the victorious expedition of Michiel de Ruyter to Chatham. It has on it (which you can't see in any of the photos) paintings - on the mirror at the stern the panorama of Alkmaar. There are also four portraits of ladies in the windows of the officer's quarters. So if you go into the church, look for the paintings

There was a model of the church inside, and we also took photos of that.

Model of the Grote Kerk (inside of the Grote Kerk)

Model of the church showing the 'back'

 

[inphoto]

War museum, Athens

 

[Chuck]

bread dough

That’s rather unusual.