Amsterdam Tulip Museum
Small canal-house museum tracing four centuries of tulip history, from Ottoman origins to the infamous sixteen-thirties trading crash.
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This guide to the Amsterdam Tulip Museum traces the tulip mania of the 1630s through Adrian Pauw, who owned twelve of the rarest 'broken' tulips and refused to sell a single one, driving the rest of the city to obsession. You'll hear how gardeners tried everything to reproduce the pattern, how a single Semper Augustus bulb was valued at ten thousand guilders by January 1637, and what happened at a Haarlem auction weeks later when buyers stopped showing up. The portraits hanging around you are the closest you'll get to seeing one.
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