Tulip Museum - details and images
Sponsored by a company increasing the bulbs, this little exhibition follows the history of tulips in front of them from Turkey. Exhibits include Tulipmania, bulbs as food in war, and scientific methods of growing and harvesting today. Celebrity tulip paintings of 17th century painter Judith Leijster, student of Frans Hals. Gift shop is open for tulips want to buy souvenirs.
It was difficult to determine the exact date when the first plantings of tulips in Holland, but it is estimated that around the year 1550, the bulbs have reached the country on ships coming from Constantinople (now Istanbul) in Antwerp. The first documentation on rearing tulips dates from 1594, the Botanical Garden of Leiden University. Garden bulbs were brought to Vienna University of Carolus Clusius, in charge of imperial gardens in Vienna. At that time, Austria had borders of conflict with the Ottoman Empire, like the rest of central Europe, Turkish culture was influenced by fashion, but in the new coffee drinking habits.
Since the Netherlands had a period of unprecedented economic boom in the first half of the seventeenth century, competition among growers of tulips grew. People were willing to pay huge amounts just to a single bulb. Slowly, the speculation began, and the prices of rarest bulbs were bigger than a house. In 1635, a set of 40 bulbs were sold for a sum of 100,000 florins, while the Netherlands had an average salary of 150 florins.
In 1636, allowed trading stock bulbs. In spite of all the authorities to stop the madness, the transactions grew, and people sell their homes, lands and valuables to invest in tulip bulbs. The stock has fallen since 1637.
Today, the tulip mania is used as a term to define any crazy economic situation absurd. The Dutch, although they are ashamed of their past behavior, yet I love tulips.
The museum contains several areas of interest related to the history of cultivation of tulips and tulip mania is specified and that they had in Dutch seventeenth century.
Tulip Museum is open every day between the hours: 10:00 - 18:00 (closed on 1 January and 30 April)
Tulip museum entrance fee is € 2 for adults, € 1 for students and free for children under 12 years.
Address: Prinsengracht 2 (closest parking Q-Park Parking Europe, Marnixstraat 250).
Tram: line 1, 2 and 5 (Westerkerk station).
Bus: line 21, 170, 171, 172 (Westerkerk station).
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