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Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum,(Dutch for National Museum) is a national museum of the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam on the Museumplein. The Rijksmuseum is dedicated to arts, crafts and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and a substantial collection of Asian art.
The Rijksmuseum Research Library is part of the Rijksmuseum, and is the largest public art history research library in the The Netherlands.
The museum was founded in 1800 in The Hague to exhibit the collections of the Dutch stadtholders. It was inspired by the French example. By then it was known as the National Art Gallery (Dutch: Nationale Kunst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king Louis Napoleon, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as The Night Watch (Dutch: De nachtwacht) by Rembrandt, became part of the collection.
In 1885 the museum moved to its current location, built by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers. He combined gothic and renaissance elements. The museum has a prominent position on the Museumplein, near the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum. The building is richly decorated with references to the Dutch art history. Rembrandt's The Night Watch has had its own hall in the museum since 1906.
Reviews for Apollo Museumhotel Amsterdam City Centre
- Total score:
6.3 - Service / Staff: 6.1
- Location: 8.4
- Cleaning / housekeeping:
6.7 - Comfort: 5
- Value for money: 5.4
- View score of :
- All
- Adolescents (43%)
- Couples (57%)
- This hotel is visited by:
Leisure (86 %)
Business (14 %)
Reviews by guests:
- Score:
- service balie perfect
- kamer was veel te klein
- (Couples | Den hoorn texel, Netherlands | 10-04-2008)
- Score:
- the location was quiet, because the hotel not in the centre of amsterdam but very near. the best point is, that you could reach several museums by foot, such as rijksmusum and van gogh, which are very close. and nice cafes are in the neighbourhood. the connection to the city center was quite good.
- the receptionist was very unkind, he didnt even look at us, when we were talking to him as well as he didnt say welcome or anything like that. our rooms were in the "cellar"--> very small windows, very dark and it was too cold to fall asleep. for one night you could tolerate it.
- (Adolescents | Düsseldorf, Germany | 03-02-2008)
- Score:
- de locatie is top. de entree is prachtig, de lobby en het restaurant zien er geweldig uit. vriendelijke mensen.
- de kamer was ronduit slecht. het plafond viel naar beneden, de bedlampjes hingen aan de pluggen uit de muur, het badkamerplafond was grotendeels beschimmeld, er zater drie hingen drie soorten gordijnen op een kamer van 6x3.
- (Couples | Den haag, Netherlands | 26-01-2008)
- Score:
- gunstige ligging t.o.v. musea en winkelen
- stanklucht op de gangen. kamer 205, boven afzuig- of andere installatie. hele nacht lawaai, we hadden om een rustige kamer gevraagd. in de badkamer geen afzuig, niet zo prettig als je gedoucht hebt.
- (Couples | Zwiep, Netherlands | 11-01-2008)
- Score:
- away from traffic noise
- my wife arrived ahead of me and was not met with the same level of hospitality as i was when i checked in.
- (Couples | Kopavogur, Iceland | 18-10-2007)
- Score:
- location
- we got the rooms that were being renovated (they could not find our internet booking), many things did not work, some were not finished, the service was not really helpful probably due to the fact that the hall was constantly crowded and they were understaffed.
- (Adolescents | Wroclaw, Poland | 11-05-2007)
- Score:
- ligging is uitstekend, makkelijk te bereiken via tram vanuit centraal station.
- niet gerenoveerde kamer was op derde verdieping, geen lift en steile trappen dus niet aangenaam voor ouderen. voor jongeren goed te doen. voor meer dan 80 euro (ontbijt & taks incl) zou ik uitkijken voor een andere plek.
- (Adolescents | Blanden, Belgium | 10-04-2007)