The Hague - Museum for Communication
Museum for Communication in The Hague presents exhibitions about the senses, communication in art and the human being. The museum was created in 1929 as the company museum of the Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie or PTT, the publicly owned fixed line operator of the Netherlands. Ever since the Second World War the museum is located in the Zeestraat in The Hague, in the former Royal Bazar.
Production: Starsound Productions
Music: Tim Akkerman
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The Hague - Museum Panorama Mesdag
Look 360º around you and experience the magical optical illusion created by this panorama of Scheveningen from 1881 in Museum Panorama Mesdag. The view is never the same; the incidence of light is more than magnificent and changes from moment to moment. The vista of the sea, dunes and old fishermen's village Scheveningen was painted by H.W. Mesdag. Panorama Mesdag is a unique cultural historical monument.
Production: Starsound Productions
Music: Tim Akkerman
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Leiden, Netherlands, canals, lanes, train station and museums
We are taking another look at Leiden, one of the most beautiful towns in the Netherlands. Wandering along the canals enjoying the reflections, heading for the shopping streets and some historic monuments and museums.
This is kind of like a video postcard rack where we're going to look at some of the buildings, we will see the dogs sitting out on the sidewalk and people at their terrace tables, or just out for a stroll in the historic neighborhoods. Sure there are lots of monuments and important sites that you'll want to see, but one of the joys and being in a place like Leiden is just simply taking a walk and watching the bicycles.
At the end of this short movie we will take you inside two of the main museums, covering history and culture. We will also have a look inside the modern train station, which is the transportation heart of the city.
The Hague - Louwman Museum
The Louwman Museum contains the world's oldest private collection of automobiles. The collection contains over two hundred and thirty antique and classic cars. Connoisseurs consider the collection to be one of the finest in the world.
Production: Starsound Productions
Music: Tim Akkerman
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The Hague - Museum Sculptures by the Sea
Hidden in the Scheveningen dunes, like a jewel in the sand, lies the Beelden aan Zee museum ('Sculptures by the Sea'). The museum focuses exclusively on contemporary sculpture. Beelden aan Zee is a private museum, run by a large group of enthusiastic volunteers and supported by a group of friends. Within the context of its artistic policy the museum organises numerous cultural activities with which it has earned a special place in The Hague's international setting.
Production: Starsound Productions
Music: Tim Akkerman
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La Haye, Musée de la Communication
un petit tour en musique du Musée de la Communication (Museum voor Communicatie) de La Haye (Den Haag) aux Pays-Bas.
Parade in The Hague, Netherlands, Prinsjesdag, Prince's Day
One of the most colorful and exciting days of the year in the Netherlands is Prince’s Day (Prinsjesdag) which happens in the Hague when the king rides in his golden coach in a major parade through town with lots of marching bands and soldiers on horseback, with traditional colorful outfits and thousands of people cheering as the parade goes by.
It's a big outdoor party for people of all ages and kids are especially happy because they get the day off from school.
You might be surprised to think that a political speech that's all about the budget for the year would turn out such an enthusiastic crowd, but it's really all about the king and the people's long-standing love and appreciation for the monarchy and they like the razzle-dazzle of the fancy parade.
This special day happens just once a year on the third Tuesday in September and begins at the stroke of one when the king, accompanied by other members of the royal household, leaves the palace in his golden carriage, which is only seen publicly on this one day of the year. Heading to parliament to give a speech, accompanied by court dignitaries and a military escort of honor, along with various marching bands and many soldiers marching by in colorful outfits.
We’re going to show you a lot of the exciting visual highlights and explain to you what's going on during this special day when the government is coming back into session after their summer vacation.
Opening ceremony ECSITE 2014: HM Queen Máxima gives the starting signal for the conference
Ecsite is the European network of science centres and museums, linking science communication professionals in more than 400 institutions in 50 countries.
In may 2014, 1000 science communication professionals met in The Hague for the Annual Conference.
Vermeer's Women at the Fitzwilliam Museum - The Big Picture Episode 2
This week's episode of The Big Picture explores the Vermeer exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum. The museum's director, Dr. Timothy Potts, talked to us about the key features of the exhibition, which shows exquisite 17-Century Dutch paintings of women in the intimate spaces of their homes.
The exhibition runs until 15 January 2012.
Next week The Big Picture will be at Trinity Hall College looking at the Barbara Rae exhibition.
The making of Kunt u dat even uitleggen? - 2015
For their Kunt u dat even uitleggen? campaign, The Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association commissioned a short informative video. The campaign and the video had a grand opening at The museum for communication in The Hague. I made a short video of this whole process. From storyboard to ceremony opening.
big up to Mister Santini & the Anime Guys!
Carol Cairns Sculpture: Introduction
An introduction to the work of Irish/Dutch Sculptor Carol Cairns.
A huge thanks to the Carel Kraayenhof Ensemble for permission to
use the track SO LONG, ISLAND from their fantastic new album
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This video shows but a sample from Carol's forty seven years career as a sculptor in The Nederlands. Although she did her studies in Ireland very little of her work has been seen there. For more info see
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“Since early childhood I have been an observer. A chance remark that people of the same race all look alike, to us, but not to each other, started me trying, in a childlike way, to see where in the human face the differences lay.
This fascination has never left me. When working on a portrait the placing of even the tiniest piece of clay can make or break the likeness.
While studying art in Dublin I received classical schooling in sculpture, from Yann Renard-Goulet, a pupil of Despiau (pupil and later assistant to Rodin, in Paris). It took many years for me to break free, well almost free, from this rigid discipline, and find a bridge between the academic and my own and observed emotions.
This bridge enables me to communicate through my work at an existential level. It is not my wish to make controversial work, but relational and also religious pieces. This way I can rearrange reality the way I see her”.
Some years after coming to live in Holland Carol Cairns won Gouda’s Art prize. This cash prize enabled her to work more professionaly and to cast more pieces in bronze.
Her work is biographical, relational and is clearly influenced by her Irish roots, her five children and her faith.
René Turkry (Antwerp’s Dagblad) says of her work:
“Sensitivity, intelligence and intuition must be combined with adequately adapted and controlled craftsmanship. Only then can real beauty be expected, and this is certainly the case here. As with all sculpture, that is lasting sculpture, Carol Cairns’ work invites attentive observation and sympathetic touching. This is authentic sculpture of permanent humanizing and yet charged with strength of mind.”
Her portraits lead a life of their own. Their charisma seems to preceed the likeness.
A short summary of the last 15 years:
• Many sculptures for trophies , graves and gardens.
• Monument for Queen Wilhelmina in Brielle (picture).
• 94 portraits including
Agatha Christie (writer),
Torquay, Engeland (picture).
Remco Campert(Dutch writer),
The Hague, Netherlands
Bust of Osvaldo Pugliese (Argentine tango maestro),
in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires
• Work in The Resistance Museum, Gouda; Museum for Religious Art, Uden;
The Literary Museum, The Hague; churches in Holland, Ireland, USA, Switserland and Germany.
• Many exhibitions in Holland, Belgium, Germany and other countries.
• Attention in the media: tv, radio, press and Art magazines.
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Kees Wattjes Artworks The Secret Museum, broadcast nov. 1998 Tv West Holland
My Secret Museum November 1998. Responding to the flow of Modern Art Museums I built my own Museum, as a secret strictly for my own satisfaction.
When the building was going to be demolished I opened it for the public.
This is an account of that project.
Kees Wattjes artclick@ziggo.nl
video by Tv West The Hague Holland
Letterlocking: Forwarded mail: Family correspondence...in a letter-packet, The Netherlands (1706)
Modelled after the Museum voor Communicatie's Brienne Collection, DB 41 with permission.
This letter-packet contains three letters: one which was forwarded, one which was to be forwarded, and one which described the other two. The three letters were placed in a letter-wrapper and locked shut.
In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk of letters was given to the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague, then as now the centre of government, politics, and trade in The Netherlands. The trunk belonged to some of the most active postmasters of the day, Simon de Brienne and Marie Germain, a couple at the heart of European communication networks. The chest contains an extraordinary archive: 2600 locked letters sent from all over Europe to this axis of communication, none of which were ever delivered. In the seventeenth century, the recipient also paid postal and delivery charges. But if the addressee was deceased, absent, or uninterested, no fees could be collected. Postmasters usually destroyed such “dead letters”, but the Briennes preserved them, hoping that someone would retrieve the letters—and pay the postage. Hence the nickname for the trunk: “the piggy bank” (spaarpotje). The trunk freezes a moment in history, allowing us to glimpse the early modern world as it went about its daily business. The letters are uncensored, unedited, and 600 of them even remain unopened. The archive itself has remained virtually untouched by historians until it was recently rediscovered. Our international and interdisciplinary team of researchers has now begun a process of preservation, digitization, transcription, editing, and identification of letterlocking categories and formats that will reveal its secrets for the first time—even, we hope, those of the unopened letters.
The research team comprises Rebekah Ahrendt, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University; Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in English at Leiden University; Jana Dambrogio, the Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator at MIT Libraries and co-general editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL); David van der Linden, the NWO Veni Fellow and Lecturer in History at the University of Groningen; Daniel Starza Smith, Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500–1700), King’s College London, England, UK and co-general editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL); and Koos Havelaar, curator of postal history at the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague.
Produced by MIT Video Productions (MVP). Directed by Jana Dambrogio, Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator, MIT Libraries and co-general editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL). Translated and demonstrated by Laura Bergemann, MIT undergraduate student.
Funded by the Seaver Institute.
Special thanks to Barry Pugatch and Eric, MVP staff; Ayako Letizia, MIT Libraries Conservation Associate; Emily Hishta Cohen, Mary Uthuppuru and Brien Beidler book conservators in private practice and associate editors of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL); and Dr Daniel Starza Smith Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500–1700), Department of English, King's College London, UK. and co-general editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL).
Cite as: Jana Dambrogio and Laura Bergemann, et al. ‘Letterlocking: Forwarded mail: Family correspondence...in a letter-packet, The Netherlands (1706)’, Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Filmed: November 2017. Duration: 6:44. Posted: November 2017. Video URL: [Use URL below]. Date accessed: [Date].
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Emilie Gordenker: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis combines a truly great collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings with the spectacular setting of a seventeenth-century city palace in the historic center of The Hague. This lecture will trace the history of the Mauritshuis's collection and the building that houses it, and will offer a behind-the-scenes view of the current renovation and expansion of the museum.
Location: The Frick Collection, New York, New York
Event Date: 10.23.13
Speaker: Emilie Gordenker
[previously hosted on Vimeo: 644 views]
iFly TV: Eric Vandermeide from Navarre Florida, USA travels to Madurodam & The Hague
Eric wrote to us I am in shock and don't know if I should believe this, followed by I can't stop smiling when he received the congratulations message he was the winner of the KLM Sweepstakes Win a VIP trip to Madurodam & The Hague.
Eric and his wife travelled to The Hague and had a great time at the Paleishotel, an exclusive visit and tour behind the scenes at Madurodam, the Museum Night The Hague, a dinner at Grand Café Restaurant Des Deux Villes.
A beautiful christmas , visiting my sister in Amsterdam Netherlands with my daughter
Christmas in Netherlands , Amsterdam , Nemo Museum ,
LinkRay Tech Shines at Petersen Auto Museum
Panasonic has been a technology partner with the Petersen Automotive Museum providing display and projection solutions to enhance their visitor’s experience. Through the use of Panasonic’s LinkRay technology, Petersen can provide an easy to use, targeted, immersive experience through mobile devices. LinkRay uses LED light sources – spotlights, digital displays, or backlit signboards – to transmit ID codes via visible light so that virtually any camera-equipped smartphone can capture it. Smartphones with the LinkRay app read and interpret these “Light IDs” which instruct the phones to download content and information from the internet. From there, the system can provide virtually unlimited information and experiences. Since Panasonic LinkRay transmits data via LED light sources, LinkRay devices can be everywhere!
Leiden, Netherlands canal boat tour
Leiden is one of the great cities of the Netherlands. In this segment on Leiden we’re taking you on a canal boat tour. It's a great way to get an overview of the city while sitting and relaxing for an hour and watching the historic buildings glide by. They say Leiden has more canals than any other Dutch city besides Amsterdam. They extend for 28 kilometers within the inner-city and are crossed by 88 bridges, some of which are quite low so you gotta keep your head down when you go beneath them/ It has all of those historic and pictorial charms that you would hope for in a quaint Dutch town -- a city of canals, pedestrian zones, historic buildings and bicycles -- in many ways a typical Dutch town but in others, something quite special. It has the oldest university in the Netherlands with 30,000 students among the 120,000 city population. One of the oldest cities of the country founded about 1000 years ago but with a young population and so many things for the visitor to see and do you could easily spend a couple of days here: drop in on some of its 200 restaurants, 60 bars, thousand shops, many along the pedestrian lanes, explore historic monuments such as this elaborate gatehouse through the medieval wall, one of two surviving gates from the old days, get educated and entertained at one of the half-dozen important museums and stay in one of the 22 hotels offering 3000 rooms.
Leiden is located just 40 minutes away from Amsterdam by train, or 20 minutes away from the airport by direct train -- easy to reach yet like many Dutch cities it's overlooked by most of those millions of visitors to Amsterdam who rarely venture beyond that big city. They're missing out on a lot that the Netherlands has to offer as will be showing you in our series.
The route that we will be taking in our one hour boat tour goes through some of the most beautiful of the canals of the city in a big loop and then coming back to where we started.
I was lucky to take what turned out to be a private tour. Well, nobody else showed up for the departure and Tim very gallantly said okay let's go and took me on a one hour boat ride. He works with a very special boat tour company that relies on 60 volunteers to do most of the driving and guiding. A lot of retirees and other interested residents of Leiden pitch in and help out.
The boat company is De Leidse Rederij at
PORTAL LAUNCH.m4v
On Thursday, 26th of January we officially launched the Peace Portal at Museum of Communication in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
We had several keynote speakers discussing the role of new media in conflict prevention and also we officially presented our publication, Peace Building Peace 2.0
for more information, please visit peaceportal.org
Hanze Summer School 2019
The Hanze Summer School 2019 welcomed 100 students from all corners of the world! Students from Canada, the USA, the UK, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Tanzania, Uganda, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Palestina and the United Arab Emirates made their way to Groningen for one of the six courses.
During the three-week summer school, students followed courses, engaged in an active social programme where they got to experience student life in the best student city of the Netherlands and went on various excursions (some even to Germany).
In 2020 Hanze University will offer seven courses in the summer school thanks to the new course Physiotherapy and Sport. Come experience studying in Europe and sign up for the Hanze Summer School here:
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