{"id":69,"date":"2013-06-11T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-06-11T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:36:36","slug":"i-go-to-the-amsterdam-maritime-museum-hunt-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/2013\/06\/11\/i-go-to-the-amsterdam-maritime-museum-hunt-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"I go to the Amsterdam Maritime Museum &#038; hunt for food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s plan was simple, head towards the Amsterdam Maritime Museum or het <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl\/\">Scheepvaartmuseum <\/a>and see what there is to see. I saw what there was to see.<\/p>\n<p>The museum reopened last year after a 10 year renovation, the building&#8217;s systems had been modernized and a roof put over the courtyard, giving the museum more open space. They have done a great job.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting exhibition for me was the Golden Age. Aside from the artifacts there were short videos introducing &#8220;people&#8221; from the time and telling their stories. These videos used famous artworks to help tell the stories; Vermeer&#8217;s <em>The Kitchen Maid\u00a0<\/em>was used to tell the story of slavery.<a href=\" https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg<\/a> Using famous art connects the maritime history to Dutch art and to the Netherlands broader history.<\/p>\n<p>Other galleries in the museum contain a huge collection of artifacts; navigational aids, globes and a nice collection of maritime art.<\/p>\n<p>The museum has a tall ship <em>the Amsterdam an<\/em> East Indiaman, a copy of a ship used by the VOC or the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_East_India_Company\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch East India Company<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><em>Pictures to come<\/em><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My hunt for food brought me to the heart of deepest darkest residential Amsterdam. Two subway rides and 25 minutes later I was at an Albert Hijen, an Albert Hijen that was supposed to have a huge kosher section.<\/p>\n<p>This HUGE kosher section consisted of 4 shelves in a fridge with Israeli salad; not what I had hoped for. I bought a bottle of water then headed home.<\/p>\n<p>There`s more excitement onTuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s plan was simple, head towards the Amsterdam Maritime Museum or het Scheepvaartmuseum and see what there is to see. I saw what there was to see. The museum reopened last year after a 10 year renovation, the building&#8217;s systems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/2013\/06\/11\/i-go-to-the-amsterdam-maritime-museum-hunt-for-food\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}