#2 Amsterdam - Landing on Museumplein

Continuing on the Green Line


House with awnings


Architecture


Little power boat


Willow near the Museum stop

so I decided that the thing she would most like to see was the Van Gogh museum, so we got off at that stop (which was about half way around) about 1030. We saw our friends from the Berlin tour on the boat and they got off at the same stop.

We had some difficulty finding the Van Gogh museum - the boat driver said it was behind the Rembrandt Museum,


From the canal boat at the museum stop


Front of museum

which is huge. We walked around to the backside (dodging construction), but we didn't see the museum.

Towers


We kept walking and came to a park area. I did not realize when we were there that we were in Museumplein although I knew that the Dutch Museum was at the canal boat stop. It wasn't until I started reading about the fact that there was "I amsterdam" sculpture that I realized that was where we were.

I Amsterdam sign which has been removed because it was a selfie magnet


Granddaughter in shorts (Amsterdam was the first place on our trip that it was warm enough for shorts. She packed multiple shorts and only two long trousers- she's a South Carolina girl)

My granddaughter posed in the sculpture on our way to the Van Gogh Museum. There is also a large shallow pond where they have ice-skating in the winter.There are also a basketball court, skateboard ramp and swings

Fountain in square

with kiosks down the side selling food, and I asked directions there.

Walking through the park

The lady said it was the second building on the right if we kept going straight ahead to the next block, and she was right.

We walked down along the park, passing one of those living statue people all dressed in purple

Statue person

and got to the museum about 1100. It was an extremely unprepossessing modern building.

Entrance to museum



Pictures outside of Museum

No pictures were allowed inside, but they charged B as a child so her ticket was free and I just paid for mine.

We got a free wheelchair and went up to the first floor where she would park me opposite a sign to read and then zoom around on her own. She was fascinated by the nude child painting and we stayed a long time at the exhibit that explained how Van Gogh overpainted a lot of his canvases. We went up to the next floor and she sat for awhile at the computer terminal and read some of the letters etc. That website is available outside of the museum, so she can do farther research if she wants. We went down and looked at the shop and bought some post cards, and then turned in the wheelchair and left the museum.

We went back to the kiosk area