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2023-05-18 16:00:00 Today, UNESCO has included ‘The Digital City’ in the UNESCO Memory of the World register. Greetings from The Digital City All rights reserved The Digital City Digital City (DDS) has been added to the international register by UNESCO Memory of the World. This is a list of cultural and historical documents and archives … Read more

2023-04-18 11:53:00 On many samplers, a small, seemingly meaningless motif hides between countless sampler motifs that are easier to guess. At most a handful of birds, which together tell their own story. Once you recognize the motif as a sampler enthusiast, you will come across it more and more. An introduction to the mystical wine … Read more

Nicholas was born in Patras around the year 280. It immediately becomes clear that this is a special child: little Nicholas stands upright in his bath water with folded hands and as an infant he refuses to receive breast milk from his mother on fast days. There is no other way; pious Nicholas becomes bishop; … Read more

Today we said goodbye to Carry van Lakerveld, one of the driving forces of the new Amsterdam Historical Museum, which opened in 1975 in the former Burgerweeshuis. From 1974 to 1994 she worked as a curator at the museum and from 1989 also as deputy director. Partly thanks to her, the museum became a pioneering, … Read more

A striking Amsterdammer has passed away. As a Jewish boy from the Rivierenbuurt, Ed van Thijn embodied the gruesome history of Amsterdam. Despite betrayal, he survived going into hiding. What traces has he left in the history and collection of the Amsterdam Museum? Ed van Thijn receiving the Miracle Box in the Amsterdam Historical Museum, … Read more

Of the four evangelists, only Matthew describes the maternity visit received by Jesus and his parents in Bethlehem. An unnamed number of magicians or wise men from the East follow a star that shows them the way to the newborn King of the Jews. Only a few verses, which appeal enormously to the imagination of … Read more

The tulip season opens today. This year unfortunately no sea of ​​flowers on Dam Square. It will be the harvest of the bulbs from your own garden… or the tulips from the flower stall on the corner. These messengers of spring remain festive … and affordable. That was different in the seventeenth century. Amsterdam was … Read more