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Your all-in-one Guide to Amsterdam Museums: Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank House & Hermitage Amsterdam If you go to Amsterdam (Holland) and want to pay a visit to its world-famous museums, then this digital set is for you. For people who like engaging, accessible guides without art historical jargon. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Highlights of the Collection is a lavishly illustrated publication containing the most important highlights of all centuries. Written in a pleasant conversational style, the book describes masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age such as The Night Watch and The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, The Milkmaid and The Woman Reading a Letter by Johannes Vermeer, and the famous pictures by Jan Steen and Frans Hals, amongst many others. But the museum guide is not only about Dutch 17th-century paintings. It also describes the highlights of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, the highlights of the applied arts like porcelain, furniture and silver, and - last but not least - the exquisite collection of Asian art, displayed at the specially-built Asian pavilion. In The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam you will get valuable advice on how to avoid the queus and make the most of your visit to this memorable hidingplace of Anne Frank. Discover the secret annexe behind the bookcase where Anne, the 13-year old Jewish girl and her family lived for 2 years, and where she wrote the now famous Anne Frank diaries. You will read about the daily life in the Achterhuis, about the people hiding, the Anne Frank Tree, the betrayal and subsequent deportation. Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam - Highlights of the Collection is of course another must see when you travel to The Netherlands. The guide gives a biography of Van Gogh and provides valuable background information on many paintings and drawings by Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries and predecessors. By reading about them beforehand you will be able to maximize your viewing experience. Hermitage Amsterdam is the only European satellite of the famous Hermitage in St Petersburg in Russia. Slightly off the beaten track, but also a must see when you visit Amsterdam. The museum is housed in a fascinating old building, Amstelhof, and stages excellent temporary exhibitions. The boxed set Things To Do in Amsterdam: Museums comprises these 4 essential guides Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Highlights of the Collections Anne Frank House in Amsterdam - Anne's Secret Annex Turned into Museum (26 pp) Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam - Highlights of the Collection Hermitage Amsterdam - Highlights from the Hermitage St Petersburg The all-in-one digital set is designed for easy reference. Download before your visit and you will more fully understand and enjoy what you are about to see. This guide will make your visit to Amsterdam an enjoyable experience

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The reader is made to feel that he is on a conducted tour of the museum, being informed by a guide who genuinely knows and loves what he or she is guiding you through. It is the same with the other museums. You are taken on conducted tours and in the end you feel enriched. - S. Roystone Neversone I was amazed at all the art in Amsterdam. The descriptions and photos was informative and fun to read. I can't wait to go there. - Vera Cruz This book is the perfect guide if you're travelling to Amsterdam and want to enjoy its four main museums. Easy to read, it includes pictures that help you to identify key pieces of the rich and gorgeous Dutch history of art. - Emma M. If you're going to Amsterdam and planning to see the museums - this book is a must read and a must to take a long with you on your trip.Marko's writing style is easy to read and very descriptive. And the photographs in the book are outstanding. - Jim Meisenheimer

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art expert based in Amsterdam Dutch arthistorian, PhD on Van Gogh drawings at Courtauld Institute of Art

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