Eclectic Museums in Amsterdam
By sandra. Filed in Holland, Museum |
When you are ready to explore Amsterdam, you would be surprised at the eclectic choices of other museums in town: the one for purses (Museum of Bags and Purses www.tassenmuseum.nl or www.museumofbagsandpurses.com) shows off 4,000 of them. The houseboat museum (Woonboot Museum) is in a – houseboat – so you can get a peek into what life is like to live
on one. There are still people living in about 10,000 of them all over the country – they’re not inexpensive at $150,00-$500,000 Euros.
There’s even one for a taste of the Hermitage from Russia, but it is filled mostly with church relics and not those gorgeous paintings we were hoping for. The Jewish Historical museum (www.jhm.nl/english) is situated in a complex of four former Ashkenazi synagogues. Besides the objects on display you pick up headphones and hear personal stories of holidays, the sabbath, services and family life.
We never made it to the Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum www.hashmuseum.com, the Tulip Museum or the Tattoo one but we did hit the Red Light district and the floating Singel Flower market. Around since 1862, the flowers used to come by boat and the stalls set on the edge of a canal are still full of tulips, geraniums, bulbs, plants, and tons of souvenirs.
