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Historisch Museum Haarlem Review

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Historisch Museum Haarlem

Fodor's Review:

Located near the Frans Hals Museum, with two or three small temporary exhibitions a year, the town's history museum makes the most of its limited resources, offering insight into the history of the city and the surrounding area. Video screenings (in English), models of the city, and touch-screen computers relate stories that take you back in history. There are fascinating old prints and maps, and some apparently random exhibits, including one of the earliest printing presses, dating from the 17th century. Also on view here is an incisive exhibition on modern Dutch architecture, ABC Architectuur Centrum Haarlem, with plans and photographs from city projects already finished and still in the planning stages (De Bruijn's Woonhuis is particularly ingenious).

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