Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum
Het National Maritime Museum (literally, " The Maritime Museum " ) in Amsterdam is located in the 1656 -built ' s Lands Zeemagazijn. The monumental building was designed by Daniel Stalpaert (1615-1676) and was originally used as a warehouse. The museum is a shipping and Rijksmuseum ( State Museum ) for the history of seafaring. Since 1973, the museum is located in Zeemagazijn, former magazine of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. The former name was historically Maritime Museum.
History
In 1650, three artificial islands ( " eilanden " ) for shipyards, apartments and warehouses were built in Amsterdam. On the island Kattenburg the Zeemagazijn, which opened in 1656 was built. It served as repository of guns, marine equipment and much more. 1791, the building was destroyed by fire and in 1795, after reconstruction, the Zeemagazijn became a warehouse of the Dutch navy, which officially remained so until the early 1970s.
The museum was a private initiative of a Dutch Maritime Museum. Therefore, collectors, enthusiasts and sponsors in 1916 founded the Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historically Scheepvaart Museum ( NHSMA ) as future support for the planned museum to bundle the activities. 1921 was a building in the Cornlis Schuytstraat be purchased behind today's " Museum Quarter ". The Queen, also patron of Vereeniging in 1922 opened the Neederlands National Maritime Museum. Since the 1950s, was an intensive search for a larger home for the collection had grown significantly. But until 1969, the financing and planning for a move and remodeling and restoration in the Zeemagazijn were secured. On April 13, 1973, the National Maritime Museum was officially opened. Because of urgent refurbishment, the museum was closed from 2007 for four years. The Dutch architect Liesbeth van der Pool designed a "master plan" for the "new museum " with reception hall, library, restaurant and larger showrooms. The costs amounted to 58 million euros. The highlight of the renovated museum is covered with thousands of glass fragments yard, called Open Pleyn.
In the 1970s, approximately 40,000 visitors were expected to be closed in 2007 there were already 200,000, which was expected in the future, with 300,000 visitors. In the first year after the renovation there were 476 397 visitors.
On 14 May 2012, the museum won the Amsterdamse Architectuur Prijs ( " Amsterdam Architecture Prize", AAP), the Gouden AAP ( "Golden AAP). "
Facilities
The Museum organizes several exhibitions for children and children's parties. There is a restaurant, which is open seven days a week, as a " museum corner " for souvenirs and other things. The stock of open from Monday to Saturday library contains approximately 60,000 books, some of which are older than 500 years. Being a reference library, it does not participate in interlibrary loan. In the freely accessible via the Internet database Maritime Digitaal present in the museum objects are searchable. These include models, illustrations, original objects and literature.
The " digital nieuwsbrief ", the journal of the Scheepvaartmuseums, published four times a year. Together with universities and other institutions, the museum organizes conferences and meetings of various kinds
Transport links
From Amsterdam Central Station, the National Maritime Museum at Katte Burgplein can be reached on foot in about 15 minutes. The number 22 bus stops at the Katte Castle Square and the bus number 48 in the Kattenburgstraat (November 2012). Both have city buses, located at the Nicolaaskerk ( Nicolaas ) in front of the main train station, a bus stop.