Het Scheepvaart Museum. The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The museum is dedicated to maritime history and contains many artefacts associated with shipping and sailing. The collection contains, among other things, paintings, scale models, weapons and world maps.
The paintings depict Dutch naval officers such as Michiel de Ruyter and historical sea battles. The map collection includes works by 17th-century cartographers Willem Blaeu and his son Joan Blaeu.
The museum also has a surviving copy of the first edition of Maximilianus Transylvanus' work, De Moluccis Insulis, the first to describe Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world. Moored outside the museum is a replica of the Amsterdam, an 18th-century ship which sailed between the Netherlands and the East Indies.
The replica was built in 1985-1990. A smaller replica of the building is part of the Dutch Village Gaoqiao, a planned city and neighborhood of the large community Pudong, Shanghai, People's Republic of China at, next to another replica of the Hofwijck. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse,'s Lands Zeemagazijn or Admiraliteits Magazijn, designed by the Dutch architect Daniel Stalpaert and constructed in 1656. The museum moved to this building in 1973. After an extensive renovation in 2007-2011, Het Scheepvaartmuseum reopened on 2 October 2011. In 2013, there was a deadly shootin
The museum is dedicated to maritime history and contains many artefacts associated with shipping and sailing. The collection contains, among other things, paintings, scale models, weapons and world maps.
The paintings depict Dutch naval officers such as Michiel de Ruyter and historical sea battles. The map collection includes works by 17th-century cartographers Willem Blaeu and his son Joan Blaeu.
The museum also has a surviving copy of the first edition of Maximilianus Transylvanus' work, De Moluccis Insulis, the first to describe Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world. Moored outside the museum is a replica of the Amsterdam, an 18th-century ship which sailed between the Netherlands and the East Indies.
The replica was built in 1985-1990. A smaller replica of the building is part of the Dutch Village Gaoqiao, a planned city and neighborhood of the large community Pudong, Shanghai, People's Republic of China at, next to another replica of the Hofwijck. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse,'s Lands Zeemagazijn or Admiraliteits Magazijn, designed by the Dutch architect Daniel Stalpaert and constructed in 1656. The museum moved to this building in 1973. After an extensive renovation in 2007-2011, Het Scheepvaartmuseum reopened on 2 October 2011. In 2013, there was a deadly shootin
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