6000 x 4000 px | 50,8 x 33,9 cm | 20 x 13,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
maggio 2016
Ubicazione:
Oosterdok, Amsterdam, Holland
Altre informazioni:
NEMO Science Museum is a science center in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located at the Oosterdok in Amsterdam-Centrum, situated between the Oosterdokseiland and Kattenburg. The museum began in 1923, and is housed in a building designed by Renzo Piano in 1997, who also designed The Pompidou Centre in Paris. It contains five floors of hands-on science exhibitions and is the largest science center in the Netherlands. It attracts annually over 500, 000 visitors, which makes it the fifth most visited museum in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of The Netherlands, Europe. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. Known as the Venice of the north many of the city’s building are located along its many canals, many of which are man-made. The houses are built on stilts to compensate for the wet ground and are built several stories high and quite narrow. They also lean forward slightly in order to maneuver furniture and other items up to the top. The canals are now part of the UNESCO heritage. Famous Amsterdam residents included Anne Frank, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh, Baruch Spinoza.
