On thursday August 7 we have visited Het Scheepvaart museum ( The National Maritime museum). The museum is showing how dutch culture was shaped by the sea. There are different themed exhibitions. In one you can learn everything about Amsterdam port and nowadys shipping. In this exhibition you can experience the way of shipping container being shipped from one place to another. There is also exhibition focusing on paintings, on navigational instruments or on yacht models. There is aslo nice exhibition about whale hunting where you can actually step inside whale model to see how big her hart is. Everything is interactive and children-friendly so you will definitely not be bored. There is also interesting exhibition about slavery, where finaly after many years they are admitting it and apologizing for it and teaching people about it. The exhibition is focused on one particular ship with slaves which sank, you could experience in how hard conditions they were transported. Next to the museum there is exact copy of Dutch East India Company ship of Amsterdam which you can explore. You can see where people slept, where they stored the food, walk on the deck and imagine you are the sailor.
Dutch East India Company ship
exhibition about slaves
start on the wall at navigational instruments exhibition
you can listen to the stories of people who took the pictures in albums on the table in front of you
view from the museum
the hold
finishing our tour at museum café :)
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