Netherlands Architecture Institute
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Netherlands Architecture Institute
Museum Park 25, Rotterdam 3015 - Netherlands
Phone: +31(0)10 440 12 00 - Fax: +31(0)10 436 69 75
The Netherlands Architecture Institute moved into its current premises in 1993, and serves as a research facility as well as a museum. The NAI has one of the largest architecture collections in the world, with over eighteen kilometres of shelves containing drawings, sketches, models, photographs and journals. The public library holds over 35,000 publications, and the NAI hold frequent lectures and study trips, along with organising over 20 exhibitions each year, covering topics from interior design to landscape architecture. |
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Blijdorp Zoo
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Blijdorp Zoo
Abraham van Stolkweg, Rotterdam - Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)10 443 14 95
Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam is a fairly large zoo with a wide selection of animals including elephants, giraffes, and penguins. The Oceanium section was opened in 2000, and is a mini ’waterworld’, with a 22 metre long shark tunnel, and a marine laboratory. The Oceanium showcases water-dwelling animals from several areas of the world. The zoo is ideal for visiting with children, and is generally perceived as taking good care of the animals in its care. |
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Chabot Museum
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Chabot Museum
Museumpark 11, Rotterdam - Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)10 436 37 13
The Chabot Museum in Rotterdam displace the private art collection of Henk Chabot, who was one of the leading Dutch expressionist painters and sculptors. Chabot was active between the two world wars, and his works depict peasants, market gardeners, and later, refugees and prisoners. The Chabot Museum is located in Museumpark, and is housed in a white Villa, originally a private residence designed by architect G.W Bass in 1938. Restoration work began on the Villa in early 2007. |
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Natural History Museum
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Natural History Museum
Westzeedijk 345, Rotterdam - Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)10 436 42 22
The Natural History Museum in Rotterdam has a varied collection of skeletons, fossils, mounted animals and preserved insects, reptiles and fish. The exhibits are laid out in creative ways, an example being the dinner table laid out, with the skulls of a human, a cow, an anteater, a lion, a zebra, and a pig as guests. Before each guest is a plate filled with their favourite foods. Another exhibit worth viewing is the 40-foot-long skeleton of a sperm whale. |
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Maritime Museum Rotterdam
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Maritime Museum Rotterdam
Leuvehaven 1, Rotterdam 3011 - Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)10 413 26 80
The Rotterdam Maritime Museum was founded by Prince Hendrik in 1874. The museum has a large collection of nautical paraphernalia, including steam engines, cranes, nautical instruments and a replica of the wooden figurehead of Erasmus from the ship De Liefde, which was the first European ship to reach Japan. The highlight of the museum is the restored 1860s warship De Buffel, which is moored in the harbour. There is a section of the museum dedicated to Children, which features a number of activities and interactive exhibits. |
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Sonneveld House
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Sonneveld House
Museumpark 25, Rotterdam - Netherlands
Phone: +31(0)10 440 12 00
The Sonneveld House was built in the early nineteed thirties, and is one of the most well preserved houses in the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism. It was designed by the artchitecture firm Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, and was opened as a public musuem house of the NAI in March 2001. The museum gives visitors a chance to see what life was like in a hypermodern house in the 1930s. |
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