Programme – Days
of Dutch Culture
Amsterdams Historisch Museum Ruysch Exhibition and A museum in drawingsDates:
19 – 22 September Location
for the Ruysch Exhibition: Kunstkamera Location
for A Museum in Drawings: Academy of Science The exhibition will be open to the public from 20 September.
Kunstkamera,
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, and Universiteit Utrecht have joined forces to
organise an exhibition of anatomical preparations from the collection of the
Kunstkamera. The world-famous
preparations by Frederick Ruysch (1638 - 1731), an anatomist from
Amsterdam, has been part of the collection of the Kunstkamera since 1718. The
exhibition is part of an extensive programme, with which Kunstkamera will try to
focus on the original 18th century
design of this unique museum. The exhibition will contain more than
seventy conserved preparations of human body parts. Also on display will be
several 18th century preparations of deformed new-born babies which are part of
the Russian collection which was collected from 1718 onwards. Furthermore, some
objects from the Albertus Seba collection will be presented. 19
September, 09.15 - 15.15 hrs Conference
around: A museum in drawings and the opening of the Ruysch exhibition,
organised in association with the Academy of Science, the State Hermitage
Museum, Gouden Eeuw Instituut, Unversiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Institute St Petersburg, Huizinga Instituut, Amsterdams Historisch Museum. The
final programme will be published in September. Morning Programme
around A museum in Drawings; speakers: Natascha Koaneva (Archive of the
Academy of Science), Galina Printseva (State Hermitage Museum), Bert van de
Roemer (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Afternoon Programme
around the Ruysch exhibition, in which doctor Frederick Ruysch and pharmacist
Albert Seba will take central place. Both their collections have been bought by
tsar Peter the Great, with which he laid the foundations for the Kunstkamera. Speakers:
Anna Radzyun (Kunstkamera), Luuc Kooijmans (Gouden Eeuw Instituut), Jozien
Driessen (Amsterdams Historisch Museum). Presentation
of the Russian publication of A Museum in Drawings,
by the
Academy of Science in St Petersburg (around 1725-1760). Publishers:
Uitgeverij Europa, St. Petersburg. A Museum in Drawings is the complete publication of the
approximately 2200 watercolours which have been saved from the objects that were
collected at the Museum of the Academy of Science during the 18th century. Location:
Menshikov Palace, Main Hall
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