Rembrandt House & Free Tower Tour

The other day I decided to check out Rembrandt's house, since I had a free museum pass, his house is just down the road, and I felt like some learning. Rembrandt is considered one of the greatest 17th century Dutch artists.. He produced large volumes of etchings, prints, paintings.. as well as all sorts of other things.. and I won't show you any of those.. I just took pictures of the inside of his house, which is also a museum full of his works.

I just realized I didn't take any pictures of the outside of his house.. oh well!



The maid slept in a bed like this one, but in the kitchen. I believe this bed was for one of the living rooms, can't remember..



His printing machine..



some of his etching tools..



lots of stairs in his house.. it was considered a very big house at the time.. Rembrandt was a great spender and not only bought a very large house, but also collected rare and prized artifacts from around the world.. They had a room full of them.. but yet again I did not take a picture of it.. u'll have to see the house yourself!







hmm.. another bed.





After Rembrandts house I hopped on my bicycle and started pedalling, when I noticed a big sign on one of the clock towers.. I managed to decipher the words.. "tour" and "free".. so I investigated.

It turns out there was a free tour of one of the clock towers! So I waited for half an hour, then joined the next hour long tour.. Yes it was an hour.. and it was in Dutch! I think I was the only Non-Dutch person there.. but it was cooool.

This is the tower in question..



some wood..



a giant bell..



welcome to the twilight zone..





At 6pm they let us all tug on ropes which rang the bells.. it was fun! One of the tower people blew up a balloon and had each of us touch it to feel the vibrations. I got a bit of sawdust in my eyes when I first tugged at the rope.. it was still fun though!



The view from the top of the tower was quite nice as well..







I noticed that quite a few people had roof gardens.



poor attempt at cheesy photo



unrelated windmill picture!



unrelated bridge picture..



unrelated duck picture!!



and finally.. unrelated sideways tree picture.. :)