Museum tot zover
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  Location in the city of Amsterdam | |
| Established | 19 December 2007[1] |
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| Location | Kruislaan 124[2] Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Coordinates | 52°20′46″N 4°56′19″E / 52.34611°N 4.93861°E |
| Director | Guus Sluiter[1][3] |
| Website | www |
The Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover (Dutch Funeral Museum So Far) is a museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands that displays the various funerary practices of the various cultures present in the Netherlands, with the view that these funerary practices provide a better understanding of these cultures.[4]
The museum is located in De Nieuwe Ooster, a memorial park in Amsterdam that includes a cemetery and crematorium.[5] The original building was designed as a caretaker’s residence by Adriaan Willem Weissman (1858–1923), who was a Dutch city architect best known for designing the Stedelijk Museum.[6]
The collection includes items involved in funerary practices such as funerary masks, caskets and urns, as well as paintings and movie clips that demonstrate these funerary practices.[4] The museum explores death and funerary practices along four themes: rituals, the body, mourning and remembrance, and memento mori.[7]
In addition to its collection, the Museum Tot Zover hosts temporary exhibitions of art and history.[4] One of the museum’s exhibitions is “The Last Image,” which is a digital, online exhibition to which anyone can submit content.[8] The premise of this ongoing exhibition is to explore the implications of photography and digital space in the process of death and dying.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bert van Panhuis, "Wegens omstandigheden geopend", Trouw, 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ Contact, Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ Organisatie, Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover". ANWB. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Museum". Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Gebouw". Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover.
- ^ "Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover". Iamsterdam. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "The Last Image". The Last Image – Tot Zover. Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover.
- ^ "The Last Image". The Last Image – Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover. Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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