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Allard Pierson Museum
The Allard Pierson Museum, part of the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology at
the University of Amsterdam, houses a collection
of Mediterranean antiquities and artefacts and is devoted to
placing the sources of Western tradition
and culture in an accessible historical perspective.
The archaeological collection of the University of Amsterdam is permanently on view here,
though the frequent temporary and visiting exhibits are more likely to have truly
memorable pieces. In the recently installed Egyptian
department you can see a model of the Pyramid of Cheops
and other pyramids at Giza, and mummies and funerary and ritual objects;
a computer prints out your name in hieroglyphics.
Ancient Greece, Rome, Etruria, and Cyprus are among the
best represented of other cultures, with pottery, sculpture, glassware,
jewelry, coins, and household objects.
The name of the Allard Pierson Museum derives from the first
professor Classical Archaeology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Allard Pierson. This former clergyman, was invited in 1877 to occupy the
chair of Aesthetics, Art History and Modern Languages at the newly founded
university. His passion for antiquity, fuelled by his travels
to the Mediterranean area, led to his collecting plaster casts.
However, this private collection was not even approaching a real museum.
Opening Hours :
Tuesday to Friday 10.00 - 5.00 hrs.
Saturday and Sunday 1.00 - 5.00 hrs.
Closed on Mondays and on some holidays
ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM
Archeologisch Museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam
Oude Turfmarkt 127
1012 CG Amsterdam
tel.: +20-525 2556 fax: +20-5252561
email: apm@uba.uva.nl
The Allard Pierson Museum has a website at http://www.uba.uva.nl/apm/
Entrance Fees
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Adults |
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€ 4,30 |
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Children from 12 -15 years |
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€ 1,40 |
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Children under 12 years |
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€ 1,-- |
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65+, CJP, students, groups of more than 10 persons |
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€ 3,20 |
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Students of UvA, members of the VVAPM |
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Free |
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Educational groups, with due notice |
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€ 1,-- |
The museum is easily accessible for wheelchairs and has the use of a
parking place for disabled persons. Note, parking is very difficult
near the museum area, but it can be reached easily from the Central Station
by tram (lines 4, 9, 16, 24 and 25).
Catalogues and guidebooks of the collections and temporary exhibitions
are for sale in the museum shop. Also books, magazines, postcards
and replicas from artefacts of the collection are available.
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