Museum_tot_zover

Museum tot zover

Museum tot zover

Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover (Dutch Funeral Museum So Far) is a museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands that displays the various funerary practices of the various cultures present in the Netherlands, with the view that these funerary practices provide a better understanding of these cultures.[4]

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The museum is located in De Nieuwe Ooster, a memorial park in Amsterdam that includes a cemetery and crematorium.[5] The original building was designed as a caretaker’s residence by Adriaan Willem Weissman [arz; de; nl] (1858–1923), who was a Dutch city architect best known for designing the Stedelijk Museum.[6]

The collection includes items involved in funerary practices such as funerary masks, caskets and urns, as well as paintings and movie clips that demonstrate these funerary practices.[4] The museum explores death and funerary practices along four themes: rituals, the body, mourning and remembrance, and memento mori.[7]

In addition to its collection, the Museum Tot Zover hosts temporary exhibitions of art and history.[4] One of the museum’s exhibitions is “The Last Image,” which is a digital, online exhibition to which anyone can submit content.[8] The premise of this ongoing exhibition is to explore the implications of photography and digital space in the process of death and dying.[9]

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    Bert van Panhuis, "Wegens omstandigheden geopend", Trouw, 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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    Organisatie, Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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    "Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover". ANWB. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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    "Museum". Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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    "Gebouw". Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover.
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    "Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover". Iamsterdam. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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    "The Last Image". The Last Image – Tot Zover. Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover.
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    "The Last Image". The Last Image – Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover. Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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