Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum

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The Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum.

The inner courtyard of Het Scheepvaartmuseum.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum (The National Maritime Museum) is a museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse, 's Lands Zeemagazijn or Admiraliteits Magazijn, designed by the Dutch architect Daniël Stalpaert and constructed in 1656. The museum moved to this building in 1973.

The museum is dedicated to maritime history and contains many artifacts associated with shipping and sailing. The collection contains, among other things, paintings, scale models, weapons and world maps. The paintings depict Dutch naval officers such as Michiel de Ruyter and impressive historical sea battles.

The map collection includes works by famed 17th-century cartographers Willem Blaeu and his son Joan Blaeu. The museum also has a surviving copy of the first edition of Maximilian Transylvanus' work, De Moluccis Insulis, the first to describe Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world.

Moored outside the museum is a replica of the Amsterdam, an 18th-century ship which sailed between the Netherlands and the East Indies. The replica was built in the years 1985-1990.

After an extensive renovation in 2007-2011, Het Scheepvaartmuseum reopened on October 2nd 2011.

Other museums

Other museums on the naval history of the Netherlands are:

• The Fries Scheepvaart Museum in Sneek
• The Scheepvaartmuseum in Groningen.
• The Maritiem Museum Rotterdam
• The Dutch Navy Museum in Den Helder

The Belgian naval history is also housed in a museum called 'scheepvaartmuseum'.

• The Nationaal Scheepvaartmuseum in Antwerp

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Het Scheepvaartmuseum, The National Maritime Museum

Coordinates: 52°22′17.40″N 4°54′54.79″E / 52.3715°N 4.9152194°E / 52.3715; 4.9152194

• Het Scheepvaartmuseum, The National Maritime Museum
• The Netherlands’ National Maritime Museum in 10 Photos (Persian Dutch Network)
• Video: Opening of Het Scheepvaartmuseum after Renovation (NOS)