Amsterdam Tulip Museum
At the Amsterdam Tulip Museum, the story begins long before 17th-century Amsterdam. This small museum, founded in 2004 in a canal house along the Prinsengracht, uses a compact 2,200 sq ft (about 200 m²) of space to track tulips from their origins in the Himalayas to the court of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566). The museum’s focus is not just botany, but trade and economics. One of its signature exhibits examines the tulip mania of the 1630s, when a speculative tulip market collapse became one of history’s most infamous financial crashes. You’ll also find Ottoman-style tulip-themed art and ceramics, along with bulb-industry artifacts and films, backed by multimedia presentations on LCD screens. …
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