Tabakshistorisch Museum Van Bossestraat 4 2613 CR DELFT Tel. +31 (0) 152122411 Hidden away in a small back street away from the city centre is one of Delft’s hidden gems. To glorify the use and promotion of tobacco in this day and age may seem very unPC but tobacco is like beer – there…
The Tropenmuseum (Museum of the Tropics) is an ethnographic museum located in Amsterdam, whose collection includes objects from Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The sound of Palestinian rap reverberates around the space, and blown-up photos of individuals look you in the eye as you walk around. Different questions on the walls bombard you wherever you look, making you reflect more on the object you see before you . . .
There are lots of paintings and books, including an extensive display on the work of Maria Sibylla Merian, the eighteenth century naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator, as well as charts and interactive learning opportunities for the young.
I always think there is something very 1960s about kinetic art, it’s all very psychedelic – the sort of thing you’d experience on an LSD trip, or so they tell me. However, the dominant, most spectacular pieces on show in this very thorough and comprehensive exhibition are fairly modern . . .
Central to the Daniël Seghers (1590-1661) painting is a portrait bust of poet, diplomat and scholar Constantijn Huygens. Following its restoration, the painting can now be viewed . . .
The National Trust is a British charity, established in the late 19th century. It cares for natural and historic monuments; including over two hundred British country homes with their outbuildings, parks and land.
ART OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD. The number of wonderful objects dazzles, the exotic displays overwhelm . . .
