Unique Museum In The Netherlands

Unique Museum In The Netherlands –  Museums usually store historical collections and works of art such as paintings and sculptures. However, in the Netherlands there are museums with collections that are different from museums in general. There is also a museum that holds a collection of preserved human remains.

Unique Museum In The Netherlands

weaverhallmuseum – These museums are very interesting and unique for birders to visit. Which museum do you mean? Below is a list of unique museums in the Netherlands to help you with your bird watching goals.

1. Electricity Country

Electric Ladyland is owned by an artist named Nick Padalino. This museum houses objects containing luminescent minerals from all over the world.

The museum opened on April 19, 1999 and is located on the ground floor of the Electric Lady Run Art Gallery. Birds can catch a glimpse of the room’s unique design, which glows in neon colors in the dark. This space, which is also called “participatory art”, makes visitors feel like they are in another world.

2. Witch’s Heavy House

This museum is also known as Museum de Waag or Heksenwaag. Means “Weighing Station Museum” in Indonesian. This museum in the town of Oudewater was once a place where goods were weighed before being sold.

This weighing station was built in 1482 and was recognized by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as an accurate and fair measuring instrument. This weighing tool also functions as a tool to determine the excise duty owed.

This weighing room was also used to weigh people suspected of being witches. In ancient times, people believed that wizards were lighter than ordinary people. If someone could not prove that he was not a witch, he would be burned alive. That is why this museum is called “Witch’s Scales”.

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3. Talking Clock Museum

If you’re a bird lover and love music, why not visit the Speak Clock Museum? The museum is filled with a collection of self-playing musical instruments, including music boxes, music boxes, self-playing orchestras, dance organs, and traditional Dutch street organs. Most of the museum’s collections date from the 16th century. The development of musical instruments in the Netherlands in this century led to the discovery of musical instruments that could be played alone. While at the museum, the birds can roam around with a tour guide who is available every hour while listening to melodious music. That’s interesting.

4. Micrope

Micropia is the first and only museum dedicated to microorganisms. This museum is located in Amsterdam and allows birds to see various types of microorganisms, from bacteria to algae.

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Micropia opened on September 30, 2014 with the aim of collecting, exhibiting and enjoying nature, especially microorganisms. These microorganisms live and reproduce in Petri dishes and large tubes. These microorganisms are also processed in birds and you can see the microbiology laboratory where these microorganisms are cultivated and processed. Do you want to see it?

5. Vrolik Museum

Like Micropia, the Vrolik Museum is also located in Amsterdam, more precisely at the Amsterdam Medical Center. Vrolik is a museum of human and animal anatomy and pathology, housing a collection of preserved specimens of human and animal body parts.

Originally, the museum’s collection was the private property of two anatomy professors at the Atheneum Illustre, now the University of Amsterdam. The two professors were surgeon and zoologist Gerardus Wrolik and his son Willem Wrolik.

One of the museum’s unusual collections are the remains of human babies with genetic diseases such as: B. Conjoined twins and babies with white vision. This museum is usually visited by medical students to expand their knowledge.