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March 5, 2006
Amsterdam, Day 3
So this is my third day in Amsterdam, and I decided to visit the Van Gogh Museum, as all people, no matter how hip they think they are, should do when visiting Amsterdam. In fact, Amsterdam has a whole park dedicated to a number of its museums:
Sure enough, wondrous city that Amsterdam is, outside the Van Gogh Museum was a woman playing the cello in the open air:
I also visited one of Amsterdam's distinctly less culturally important museums-- The Torture Museum:
The sign makes the place look so happy and exciting! Honestly, the place was somewhat lame, having thrown together a bunch of medieval torture instruments, copies of medieval drawings depicting how they were used-- some completely out of context, with little explanation-- and very brief writeups of only a portion of their collection. I suppose there was a reason why my guidebook didn't even make mention of this 3rd-rate museum.
Posted by Dean at March 5, 2006 6:07 PM