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Den Haag 🇳🇱

Thu, 30/06/2022 - 1:09am by reuben

We headed towards Den Haag while mom finished some final meetings related to her fellowship, after a few more weeks in Hoogersmilde.

In the train station en route to Den Haag.
Den Haag crest.
We made it!
Eating a peanut butter sandwich and reading the guidebook in the hostel.
Cool public benches.
Some Dutch advertising that made us laugh: a vegetarian food company referring to the "Vegetable Butcher".

Escher in Het Paleis

We went to see the MC Escher museum as our first outing.

Detail of one of the reflection ball pieces.
Did not know that Escher did any wood work!
Interactive space with a hanging reflection ball.
Kids watching a video.
Interactive space with box illusion.

MC Escher was an artist who did mostly prints(woodcuts, linocuts, and lithographs). He is famous for his tesselations, optical illusions, and impossibilities.

Maurithuis

The morning after the MC Escher museum, we went to the Maurithuis. We saw the Girl with a Pearl Earring! We also saw some grosser paintings, like the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tolp. It is a painting of a dead body being dissected. The body originally had just one hand(being a twice convicted criminal, first cutting off his hand, then killing him) but Remembrant added another later on. No one knows why!

Scheveningen

We went to the beach after a burger lunch, and the waves were around 5 feet high! We got so cold that we had to rub ourselves with sand to get warm.

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