Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
Former royal yacht club mansion on the river, now a museum of world cultures and their art.
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This guide to the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam starts with a mismatch between a vast collection and the riverside mansion that holds it. It follows the house from the Royal Yacht Club and Prince Hendrik in the eighteen-fifties, through its years as a city museum, to the layers of paint, stairs and walls later generations added. Best heard on the Willemskade, facing the facade.
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