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Video: 5 weirdest museums in Amsterdam
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is hardly any other city that can compare with Amsterdam in the number of museums and galleries - there are about 400 of them in this city. There are large and well-known institutions, such as the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum or the Anne Frank House, and there is also a huge number of small museums, including a museum coffee, performances, piano, cheese, wallets and anything else you can think of. The strangest of them are in our selection.
Torture museum
The Museum of Torture has a rather impressive collection of various devices for mutilation or for the slow death of a person. Truly, a person's fantasy is limitless, and even in the matter of making fun of his fellow man, as it were, it cannot be stopped. So, in a series of dark gloomy rooms of the museum, you can see the famous guillotine, the "iron maiden" (a sarcophagus with thorns inside), an interrogation chair (it was a chair with spikes, on which a naked man sat), various types of racks, the "cradle of Judas", which and it is better not to describe at all. Some of the exhibits are too dangerous or of historical value, and therefore closed behind glass, but most of the instruments of torture can be touched.
Museum of Sex
This museum is also one of the most popular in Amsterdam. Here you can find various objects that in one way or another reflect a person's sexuality - paintings, photographs, figurines, plates - a huge number of different things. In some parts of the museum, recordings are heard - groans and sighs. Here you can also learn the history of the most famous Dutch courtesan - Mata Hari.
Marijuana museum
In a city where you can freely buy cannabis in coffee shops, it would be strange not to find a marijuana museum - and it really is! The museum fully and widely reveals the fields of application of this herb - from relaxation to making clothes, from medicine to making paper (the museum even has a Bible made from hemp paper), from religious rituals to modern ways of cultivating this herb. So, in the backyard of the museum, you can walk through the marijuana garden, where you can clearly see the different stages of its cultivation.
Museum of tattoos
The Tattoo Museum is divided into halls across continents - thus revealing the art of applying ink to skin around the world. In addition, the topic of tattooing subcultures is also disclosed there - what kind of tattoos did sailors, prisoners, military or sex workers have. In addition to historical artifacts (including real human skin with tattoos), the museum contains works by contemporary masters (photographs, of course, or on artificial leather).
Dutch funeral museum
This institution fully reveals the theme of the funeral in the Netherlands. How people of royal blood were buried, how the poor were buried, what they were buried in and what they said at the same time, how this process changed over time and what influenced it. Quite a specific topic that rarely attracts tourists, but the museum has been operating quite confidently for 12 years.
In addition, in the Netherlands, which is true already outside of Amsterdam, there is an absolutely stunning Museum of the Human Body, which we talked about in detail in our article on this establishment.
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