Centraal Museum
Art and history museum with a medieval cargo boat preserved beneath its old monastery building.
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This guide to the Centraal Museum in Utrecht goes below the museum's monastery building to a wooden cargo boat dug out of the old bed of the river Vecht in December nineteen thirty. It follows the workmen who found it, the director who wanted it saved, and the scientists who later turned their attention to its timber. You'll also hear how the boat was built and how it worked the Rhine, so stand near the Agnietenstraat entrance as you listen.
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