Bijbels Museum description and photos - Netherlands: Amsterdam (Topic)

Bijbels Museum description and photos - Netherlands: Amsterdam. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Bijbels Museum.

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The Bible Museum is located in the center of Amsterdam, on the embankment of the Herengracht Canal. Since 1975, the museum has occupied two buildings out of four so-called "Kromhout houses". The buildings themselves are also of great historical and architectural value. They were built in 1662 for the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Jakob Kromhout. These houses have preserved 17th century kitchens - the oldest in the Netherlands. Ceiling paintings from the beginning of the 18th century and stucco moldings preserved in some rooms are also of great interest.

The museum was founded in 1852. The founder of the museum, Leendert Schouten, collected something that could recreate the atmosphere of that time and those places where the events described in the Bible once took place. The Egyptian collection of the museum includes not only clay tablets, sarcophagi or images of scarabs, but also a real mummy. Here you can see models of ancient temples, made with amazing precision and decorated with precious stones.

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