2. If you go to Amsterdam
(Holland) and want to pay a visit
to its many interesting
museums, then this is your
guide. Things To Do in
Amsterdam: Museums
comprises four museum guides
in total: The New Rijksmuseum
(104 pp), the Van Gogh Museum
(51 pp), the Anne Frank House
(17 pp) and the Hermitage
Museum Amsterdam (16 pp).
3. All of them written by Marko Kassenaar, who is an
expert in the field and without using art historical
jargon. Download before your visit and you will more
fully understand and enjoy what you are about to see.
Since it is a digital edition you don't have to carry
around heavy books!
4. The New Rijksmuseum, the text
and images of which are fully
integrated in this current guide, has
been a best selling book for many
months in 2014. A lavishly
illustrated publication containing
the most important highlights of all
centuries displayed in the New
Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam. A
perfect guide to preparing yourself
to your visit and which makes sure
that you'll recognize and fully enjoy
the masterworks when visiting the
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
5. Written in an engaging style, the
book describes masterpieces of the
Dutch Golden Age such as The
Night Watch and The Jewish Bride
by Rembrandt Harmensz.. van Rijn,
The Milkmaid and The Woman
Reading a Letter by Johannes
Vermeer, and the famous pictures
by Jan Steen and Frans Hals,
amongst many others.
6. But the book is not only about Dutch 17th-century
paintings. It also describes the highlights of the 18th, 19th
and 20th century, the highlights of the applied arts like
porcelain, furniture and silver, and -last but not least- the
exquisite collection of Asian art, displayed at the
specially-built Asian pavilion.