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Hendrick Hamel Museum

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Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Hendrick Hamel Museum
Phone:
+31 183 200 100

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday12:30pm - 5pm
Thursday12:30pm - 5pm
Friday12:30pm - 5pm
Saturday12:30pm - 5pm


Hendrick Hamel was the first Westerner to provide a first hand account of Joseon Korea. After spending thirteen years there, he wrote Hamel's Journal and a Description of the Kingdom of Korea, 1653-1666, which was subsequently published in 1668.Hendrick Hamel was born in Gorinchem, Netherlands. In 1650, he sailed to the Dutch East Indies where he found work as a bookkeeper with the Dutch East India Company . In 1653, while sailing to Japan on the ship “De Sperwer” , Hamel and thirty-five other crewmates survived a deadly shipwreck on Jeju Island in South Korea. After spending close to a year on Jeju in the custody of the local prefect, the men were taken to Seoul, the capital of Joseon Korea, in June, 1655, where King Hyojong was on the throne. As was customary treatment of foreigners at the time, the government forbade Hamel and his crew from leaving the country. During their stay, however, they were given freedom to live relatively normal lives in Korean societyIn September 1666, after thirteen years in Korea, Hamel and seven of his crewmates managed to escape to Japan where the Dutch operated a small trade mission on an artificial island in the Nagasaki harbor called Dejima. It was during his time in Nagasaki that Hamel wrote his account of his time in Korea. From here, Hamel and his crew left to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies in late 1667. Although Hamel sojourned in Batavia until 1670, experts speculate that his crew, returning to the Netherlands in 1667, brought his manuscript with them, where three versions of it were published in 1668. Hamel himself did not return to the Netherlands until 1670.
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