My last stop the Sunday before last was the Museum Het Grachtenhuis. For more details click here. This might be one of my favourite museums, which is saying a lot because it came at the end of a very busy two days! It tells the story of how the canal system came to be and also has a great exhibition of photographs from a National Geographic photographer.
The cool thing about this museum is that it is set up in about 4 rooms of different movies and projections. The first one told the very old history of Amsterdam and how it grew quickly and became very crowded. Then you go into the next room and there are maps of the city all over the walls and a table with 6 chairs with people's names on them in the middle. You're in the middle of a conversation between city planners, mayors, etc about how to plan the city's expansion. Different maps are projected onto the table like they are being rolled out, and as the men talk it looks like they are drawing on them. The third room shows projections of people building the houses in the expanded city. And in the last room you can look into houses and see scenes of people in the 17th and 18th century projected inside moving around. Your headset links to the rooms so you can also hear what's going on! Very cool technology - much fancier than anything I've seen before - and very effective!!!
Here are some snaps!
The first room:
Map on table with chairs in second room:
Model of house build on "piles" (those sticks under it) in the third room:
Looking into a house in the fourth room:
looks very interesting! (mom)
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