Next year, same time, things will probably be somewhat different from where I am now. These are the attempts to write an entertaining collection of meaningless contemplations and tales leading up to the coming changes...
Forget for a minute those museums that you would go to anyway while in the Netherlands, to stand in line for hours to see a painting or two. Here are, in no particular order, three suggestions of museums you might want to visit one day for various reasons.
The Kröller-Möller museum offers a wide selection of paintings and sculptures. Here one can find works of Berlage, Gauguin, van Gogh or Picasso (amongst many others). The website contains an overview of the paintings on display.
One of the attractive features of this museum is its interior and an exterior exposition. The interior contains some interesting paintings, while the exterior has some impressive sculptures ... well large at least. And since it's bigger it must be better, or so I've been told.
If you get fed up with all that art and sculptury, you can just take one of their bikes and set a course through the few places in the Netherlands where nature still covers more than one square kilometer.
Being an individual with a certain inclination , I have a special soft spot for the art which displays a little bit more thought than the overvalued and pretentious expression of an artist having a bad day (too many examples to pick from I'm afraid). Enter my favorite M.C.: MC Escher.
The Hague currently has most, if not all, of Mr Escher's work on display . Besides all his well known works, the exhibition contains some extras. While going through the museum, one gets a good picture of the evolution of his art, starting from his early displays of landscapes to his experimentations with dimensions, concepts like infinity and progression. As an interesting bonus, you can experience Escher through a virtual reality show.
Not too far from the Escher museum, one can find “het Mauritshuis”. This was a pleasant surprise to me, as you can get up close and personal with some of the Dutch and Flemish masters, such as Vermeer, Brueghel, Rembrandt or Steen. Whereas the van Gogh museum or the Rijksmuseum, attract a large contingent of tourists, one can easily breathe in this museum.
In the museum there are free audio tours giving some interesting background on the artists and paintings. While it's not a big museum, one can easily spend one or two hours there.
Anyway... Vancouver offers quite a list of museums itself ; I'll keep you updated on the first three good ones I find.
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