Monday 10 February 2020

Rijks Museum Amsterdam



At the end of January, we had a long weekend trip to Amsterdam. The last time I visited Holland was back in the 1980's on a school trip. Gotta admit I was looking forward to visiting the Rijk's Museum.
We only spent around 3 hours in the museum, but it was 3 hours well spent.

So here are plenty of photos to bore you all rigid!






























That's a big sword!!













The Black Watch - Being restored














































32 comments:

  1. Ooooh! Guns, lots of lovely guns...and lots of handles with sharp bits attached.
    The ships. Any idea what scale they could be? I´d love to get my Hands on em.

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    1. Ships were Big scale. Not big enough for me and you to fit in, but still big!

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    2. hame. Still, bit of electronics, make so the guns could actually fire and then find a big enough Pond to launch them onto.

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  2. European museums are so cool! I still have fond memories of the one in Edinburgh. And yes, that is a big sword!

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    1. There's so much history to discover in Europe.

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  3. OOO! Amazing and sooo inspirational stuff! That must be awesome trip!

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  4. Well! This was three hours very well spent! Loved seeing the Master's artwork and the arms and armor. Thank you!

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  5. Cracking pictures - looks like three hours weren't enough!

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    1. I could have spent all day in there to be honest. But we had to ladies waiting for us in the cafe area and a visit to the Heineken museum booked in next!

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  6. Missed pretty much all that when I went! Lots of lovely pictures, the maritime museum was also very good, did you make it there too?
    Best Iain

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  7. Great pics, Ray! I visited Amsterdam on a rare work trip last year and was really disappointed that I couldn’t squeeze a visit to this museum. It looks like I missed even more than I thought :-0

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    1. Well worth a visit. It's not actually that far away either?

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  8. On my places to visit this summer. Are you sure that's the Black Watch being restored? Possibly the Night Watch. ;)

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    1. Ahem! You could well be right Sir M. 10/10 for spotting my deliberate mistake..... ahem!

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  10. Excellent! We enjoyed the refurbished Library too.

    Regards, Chris

    Last comment removed to correct my spelling mistake :-(

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    1. Didn't see the library? Or know it was there?

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  11. It's a wonderful Museum to visit Ray, missed out on our last visit a year ago but will be going back this year. Great photos.

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  12. Excellent report and some excellent pics. You do know Legio XII are the best?

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    1. Of course George. But he doesn't sell a XII Tshirt......yet.

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  13. That's one I have now added to my list. Lovely photos Ray, and I particularly like the way you have taken them and without your reflection in the glass, something I have yet to master.

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    1. Well worth a visit Lawrence. Pure luck there are no reflections if me in any of the pics.

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  14. A great, great thank you for this journey!!!
    Beautiful photos!

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  15. Some very interesting photos there. It seems well worth a visit.

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  16. Great pics. There are some lovely looking displays!

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