If you're ever stranded in Haarlem for a month or six weeks and have completely run out of interesting things to do, check out the Teyler Museum. It's best described as a 19th century museum of mostly natural history, maintained to 19th century museum standards. Deliberately and meticulously. A large, open-to-the-public time capsule. If you're very much into the history of science or the history of museums (!), you might also enjoy it. Warning: limited interior illumination; closes at 5PM or whenever the sun goes down.
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| Entrance to the Teyler |
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| Bear skeleton |
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| Bone and fossil display cases |
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| Ditto |
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| Scientific instruments of yore |
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Part of the set from Frankenstein, (1932), Boris Karloff, Colin
Clive |
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| Thus |
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| Library |
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| More display cases, minerals, rocks, etc. |
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Concave mirror; like Archimedes' reputed death
ray machine |
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A collection of 19th century magic trick boxes; a video--one
the museum's few concessions to the 20th century--showed their
workings |
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| More instruments |
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| Facsimile prints of famous works at other museums |
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| In one of the 2 or 3 painting galleries |
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I looked at a few scores of paintings, mostly Dutch, 19th
century, and saw not one name that I knew; I liked this
water-scape, however |
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A battery of Leyden Jars : hence the term
"battery" |
1 comment:
The first few photos look like the U of A Museum when we first moved to Fayetteville, then someone decided the museum was an expense that the University could not afford, so it was closed. I often wonder what happened to all those cases of artifacts.
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