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Teylers Museum is located on the eastside of the old town center of Haarlem, on the banks of the river Spaarne. Teylers Museum is the first and so the oldest Dutch Museum, which first opened it's doors in 1784.
Unique to this museum is the historical presentation of its collections, largely unchanged since the late 18th and 19th centuries. As a whole, the building and the collections are a monument to two centuries of cultural history. The 18th-century ensemble is wholly unique.
The facade of the museum looks really beautiful and so is the entrance hall. This hall is lighted by an even more beautiful dome light.
The first two rooms of the museum are dedicated to a unique Fossil collection. This collection excists of 22361 specimen. The specimen are displayed in beautiful authentic 19th century cabinets. Among all these specimen, there are an important collection of fossils from the St. Pietersberg near Maastricht.
In the second Fossil Room there are some bigger mineral specimen on display, neatly stored under glass cloches. There are some great Aragonite (Eisenblute) specimen on display, together with Rock Crystal, Antimonite, etc.
From the second Fossil Room you enter the Science Room, filled with Physical instruments. Besides hundreds of instruments, like old telephones, gramophones, etc., there are some beautiful pieces of Uranium glass on display.
In a small corridor, between the Science Room and the Oval Room, there is a small chamber called The Luminescence Room. Needles to say which type of minerals are on display there. First you have the opportunity to study the specimen by daylight and after a while the light automaticly switches to UV.
As soon as the light switches, your eye is immediately drawn to a big piece of Fluorite glowing in an Azurite-Blue color.
Through the small corridor, you enter the Oval Room, which is the main room of the museum. This room also has a great dome light, just like the entrance hall. This is the only way the museum is lighted. Daylight falling through the windows or through these dome lights, creating a unique atmosphere.
The centre of the Oval Room is taking by an enormous Mineral Cabinet, with hundreds (thousends) of specimen in it. This collection contains 4153 Rocks and 7303 Minerals. Besides this big cabinet, there are two smaller ones of which one is filled with Calcites and the other with Agates.
Along the walls of the Oval Room, there are several Physical instruments on display, like telescopes, solar system models, etc. On the second floor, there is a library, which can only be visited on appointment.
(text and pictures by Bert de Ruiter)
Besides the collections described above, the museum also has a great collection of Coins and Medals on display, two rooms of Paintings, among with Dutch artists like Mesdag and there is a large collection of Prints and Drawings.
If you want to see it all, pay a visit to this unique museum.
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