The Historic Museum

February 4- Today I went to the Historic Museum of Amsterdam.  

First of all, the museum was set up in a confusing way so I started at the top floor, which was the most recent history and worked backwards in time as I headed downstairs.  The first exhibit I saw dealt with the legalization of drugs which was really interesting to read about.  Next was a small exhibit about World War II.  That exhibit was very small, especially compared to the exhibit about some famous Dutch soccer player.  To be honest, I would rather learn more about WWII but I do live in Europe now and it seems their whole lives revolve around soccer, or futbol.  The historic museum also had some information about the architecture of Amsterdam.  The architecture in Amsterdam is really cool looking because it is so much different from what I am used to.  

Plus the architecture varies greatly from one building to another all over Amsterdam.  The houses and building are all compressed together and have no yards as you can tell from the picture above.  Also the museum had some paintings and some information of previous queens of the Netherlands.  To me the more recent history was what really interested me and the oldest history was really difficult to get interested in.  The museum wasn’t the best but it did have its interesting and cool parts.  It did have a good representation of the historical changes that Amsterdam underwent in the past couple of centuries.  It also showed a lot of the cultural changes as more and more immigrants arrived in Amsterdam.