On Saturday morning, in the Hague, we visited the wonderful Mauritshuis (Maurits House), the royal picture gallery hosting works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Steen, Hals and other famous Dutch painters. The special exhibition "Pride of Place" presents Dutch cityscapes from Golden Age and with the aid of a multimedia guide we could understand and relish in the amazing style of the painters.

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The Hague, which used to be the place where counts would go hunting in the old days, is now a major Dutch city, in the conglomerate metropolitan area of Randstad. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives and works in The Hague. All foreign embassies and government ministries are located in the city, as well as the The Supreme Court, the Council of State and many lobbying organisations.



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This is what I've been doing lately and it's been fun and a bit more relaxing than the constant focus on the finance course. So I've restructured my thoughts and decided to fully enjoy the 3 weeks I have left of my exchange semester in Rotterdam. How? Tonight it's movie night, tmorrow we go to Den Hague, then we plan some sort of super cultural day in Amsterdam. Next week there isn't much to do,

We got free tickets from RSM to visit the Erasmus exhibition at the Bojimans van Beuningen Museum. It was also an exhibition for the 95th anniversary of RSM. We attended a cabaret show (some songs in Dutch), a lecture about the pictures in the exhibition (largely about Erasmus' influence in the religious and artistic world in his times), and of course visited the latest collections in Bojimans.