{"id":136972,"date":"2025-01-17T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=136972"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:45:59","slug":"photgraphy-rijksmuseum-van-oudheden-national-museum-of-antiquities-in-leiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=136972","title":{"rendered":"photography Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=17481\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"17481\">Rijksmuseum van Oudheden&nbsp;(English: National Museum of Antiquities)<\/a> is the national&nbsp;archaeological&nbsp;museum&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Netherlands, located in&nbsp;Leiden. It grew out of the collection of&nbsp;Leiden University&nbsp;and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology. The museum calls itself &#8220;the national centre for archaeology&#8221; and focuses on&nbsp;ancient Egypt, the&nbsp;ancient Near East, the classical world of&nbsp;Greece,&nbsp;Etruria&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rome&nbsp;and the early (prehistoric, Roman and Medieval) Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-12-januari-2018-DSC_4404-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-12-januari-2018-DSC_4404-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-12-januari-2018-DSC_4404-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-12-januari-2018-DSC_4404-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-12-januari-2018-DSC_4404.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The current collection of the museum is divided in the following categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ancient Egypt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancient Near East<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Etruscan civilization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancient Greece<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancient Rome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prehistoric Netherlands<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roman Netherlands<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medieval Netherlands<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the central hall of the museum stands an original Egyptian temple, the&nbsp;Temple of Taffeh, which was taken apart in Egypt and reconstructed in the museum as part of the&nbsp;International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-DSC_4423-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-DSC_4423-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-DSC_4423-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-DSC_4423-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designjaap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RMO-DSC_4423.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Temple of Taffeh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a photographic impression of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?page_id=17481\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"17481\">The\u00a0Rijksmuseum van Oudheden\u00a0(National Museum of Antiquities)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Rijksmuseum van Oudheden&nbsp;(English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national&nbsp;archaeological&nbsp;museum&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Netherlands, located in&nbsp;Leiden. 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