Amsterdam: Impossible Journeys
Then and Now in The Netherlands, Russia and Persia. A traveling exhibition and events
Amsterdam
Jan Struys (c.1628-c.1694): Fake or Fact?
Kees Boterbloem A decade after the Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys had been published, I met Jan Struys in Haarlem.[i] Or rather, I met his likely descendant Jan Struys, who is a well-known Dutch police official. Jan told me that, when reading my recent Dutch retranslation into modern Dutch of the 1676 bestseller Rampspoedige …
What you should know about the objects in the exhibition
The ten objects presented here were chosen from hundreds of objects from historic collections in a collaborative and participatory way facilitated by curator Irina Leifer. Although these objects served as a point of departure for the contemporary artworks they could not be present in the workshops and the exhibition. Therefore Virtual Reality provided for …
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