Maritime Museum (Maritime Museum) of Amsterdam It houses a large collection of objects from the ancient sailors of the country. This serves to narrate exhaustively the history of Dutch navigation. The museum receives about 200 thousand visits a year.
The building is in the Plantage neighborhood, east of the city. It was built in 1656 and served as a National Naval Depot. The museum only moved in 1973.
The first floor of museum shows the origins and development of the Dutch fleet in the seventeenth century called the Golden Age, at the hands of the Dutch East India Company. The second is dedicated to commercial navigation, developed in the XNUMXth century
The collections of museum they cover all kinds of objects: navigational instruments, maps, replicas of ships, boards, etc. Among the objects, the planetarium of Jan van Dam stands out. It dates from 1750, but this model can still reproduce the movement of the planets in the solar system.
It also has paintings of naval combat, and portraits of Dutch officers of the past, among which the portrait of Admiral Michiel De Ruyter stands out, whose fleet faced the English and French in the Anglo-Dutch war of the XNUMXth century. Also in the museum is the first edition of "De Moluccis Insulis" by Maximilianus Transylvanus, the first to describe Ferdinand Magellan's journey around the world.
Among the vessels on display is the royal barge, a luxurious vessel built in 1818 for King William I. The royal family used to be transported through the canals on special occasions. In front of the museum is moored the ship «Amsterdam», an exact replica of a three-masted ship from the 1985th century. The surprising thing is that it was built in XNUMX only on the basis of existing documentation and drawings.
The ticket price is 5 euros for adults and people over 4 years old. For an additional 2 euros you can buy a combined ticket to enter the NEMO museum and ship "Amsterdam". Bill museum It is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00. Only open on Mondays in June, July and August. Closed on December 25, January 1 and April 30.
To get there, you must take the Bus 22, 42 and 43 bound for Kadijksplein.
Currently the museum is undergoing renovation to cater for the growing number of visitors and make the visits more personalized. It will not open until the summer of 2011. The ship "Amsterdam" is the only thing that remains open to the public.
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