Day two in Amsterdam

This morning we visited the van Loon Museum. The Van Loon family were a very wealthy family who were partners in the Dutch East Indies Trading Company. Their house is the only one left in Amsterdam that still has a coach house (that's where they use to house their horses and coaches) at the back. It is vey fancy.


That's the coach house in the background.



That's me sitting like a lady.


I'm getting good at this.


The shiny pots and pans in the kitchen.


The matching wallpaper (made from fabric) and bedspread.


Afterwards we walked to the Rijksmuseum.



It was under renovation so only a small part of it was open.


One of the first things we saw were these beautiful dolls houses. They cost as much as a real house to make and were owned by the wives of rich merchants.


This is a famous painting by Vermeer.


This is one of Rembrandts most famous paintings. It is very big and took him over a year to paint. It is called " The Nightwatch".


Can you see dad and me?


Next we went to the Van Gogh Museum. He is another famous Dutch painter. He only lived for about 37 years. He thought he lost his talent for painting so he shot himself and died two days later.

A lady gave me a activity sheet to fill in as we walked around the gallery. I had to find paintings and answer questions about them. By the end I was an expert and got a sticker saying so!


He did many self portraits.


And did 5 paintings of these sunflowers!!


This was his bedroom. They recently cleaned the painting and reckon the walls were more a lilac colour.


This is a painting of blossoms. He liked painting these as he thought people would buy the paintings of them.

We had dinner at Wagamama's and then went home. We saw these wonky buildings near the railway station.

Location:The Netherlands