20230115 NEMO Science Museum
Nemo Science Museum, Amsterdam Netherlands
Official Photo of the verdigris ship-shaped building, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Built above a tunnel, the curvature of the tunnel acted as a foundation and was also the inspiration for the curved shape of the building itself. In a kind of mathematical mirror image of the traffic descending into the tunnel, the architect designed a building that seems to rise out of the water. NEMO
and tree-adjacent decorating! (In the Cantine).
On the first floor of the museum is a small Oval Room, a Reproduction from the First Museum of the Netherlands, opened in 1784 by the estate of Peter Teyler van der Hulst.
Landscape Marble, and no that isn't peeling paint, but the actual grain of the marble.
Key West Doves by John Audubon.
As we left. Hobbit voiced a desire to come back. Win! And, since we didn't get the do the WHOLE museum (we missed the fourth floor completely) we absolutely must.
Good bye until next time!
We finally made it to the Science Museum!
We traveled by Metro so we came out via Amsterdam Centraal, the most beautiful train station I've ever seen. Mosaic and gilt and bas relief everywhere!
The boys had a blast in the bubble section!
And we're fascinated by the telescope!
They outgrew their Mama in a forced perspective room, which doubles as a slide if you are 5.
They used blocks to build colored shadows.
And tried to complete an 8,650 piece triangle puzzle.
But Hobbit's favorite area was the one with the gears. He spent maybe ten minutes manipulating a set of gears that made birds fly.
He was spent nearly that cranking this colorful jointed ball open and closed (a Hoberman Sphere). I loved it, especially since the first time he saw one of those it was in the New Jersey Liberty Science Center, and it terrified him as it descended from the ceiling above his 3-year-old head.
I love oversized chairs.
There was so much to do that we couldn't possibly get photos of it all. The Rube-Goldberg machine that shot a foam rocket three stories high... All the interactive stuff in the electric and magnetic area... As usual, the Science Museum is a huge playground. I love it!
In the Northern Apennine mountain areas of Italy, around the city of Florence in Tuscany, a rare kind of limestone is found called “pietra paesina” or “Florentine marble”. The natural veins of impurities within the rock have arranged themselves in shapes that resemble mountainous landscapes, castles, and ruins. For this reason, the rock is also known by various names such as “landscape stone”, “ruin marble” and “ruiniform marble.” -Amusing Planet
Plate 282, from Birds of America,, by John J Audubon, Royal Octavo 3rd edition – 1871, Hand-colored lithograph J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia (photo by Audubon Prints bc mine was terrible).
I was tickled pink by this piece, because I'm from Florida. To find a bit of Key West in the Netherlands is heartwarming. By the way, the Key West quail-dove (Geotrygon chrysia) is thriving in Key West, FL, and Cuba.
Postcards!
The giftshop has available two postcards about the museum. The first is a photo of the outside of the building, and the second is a White-on-blue blueprint-style sketch by the architect.
Oh! And I had a tiny spot left on my Netherlands Page, in my travel passport. It's now completely full! 2014-2023.
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