From the eighteenth
century's cobblestone streets
With the horse and the carriages to rest our feet
To the train and city tram
Came the birth of mechanical man...
With the horse and the carriages to rest our feet
To the train and city tram
Came the birth of mechanical man...
The beginning of the lyrics of the super hit Traffic Jam, preformed by the
band Sailor, the music and words were written by Georg Kajanus.
Perhaps a never seen sight for you, but on the Antiquemarket and Bookmarket
in The Hague a reality. There you might find the vintage record or see the carriage
and old tram.
On Saturday July 5, 2014 King Willem Alexander will open the official
celebration of 150 years tram’s in The Hague. The opening will be in
Scheveningen, at the Noorderstrand and the tram’s will ride to the Kerkplein.
On Saturday July 12, more historic trams will run the tracks in The Hague,
hop on and do not forget your camera !
For more information you can visit the dutch site: www.hovm.nl
If you do forget your camera, no problem, because on the Thursday or Sunday
you can go to the Antique and Bookmarket on the Lange Voorhout and find enough
books about the tram’s throughout the years.
Especially Antiquariaat Damokles, with standholder Astrid van Rongen, has a
major collection of books about trams and other kinds of transportation. She
can be found on the Bookmarket every Thursday.
Her site: www.damokles.nu , and she also
has a shop in the Piet Heinstraat in The Hague.
For vintage records you can visit Antiquariaat Symbolon, with Kees
Simpelaar, also each Thursday on the Bookmarket.
However the Antique and Book Market is not on those Saturday’s, every Sunday
historic trams do come to the Lange Voorhout. They stop near the museum Escher
in het Paleis.
The museum Escher in Het Paleis opened in November 2002 in Queen Emma's
beautiful former palace on the Lange Voorhout. The palace houses a huge
collection of prints and drawings by the world-famous Dutch artist M.C. Escher.
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)
is a master at drawing impossible situations. In one of his drawings water
flows uphill and in another fish transmogrify into birds. Escher was influenced
by his tutor Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, himself a great graphic artist, but
also by the Moorish buildings and mosaics in Granada and Cordoba.
a silver art medal, M.C.Escher 1898-1972, designed by Henk van Bommel in 1998, collection of standholder Delta 98 Den Haag
In the museum you can see the originals of
famous works like 'Belvédère', 'Ascending and Descending', 'Day and Night' and
parts of the 'Metamorphosis series'. But don't miss the other interesting
exhibits, like the less well-known bookplates, wrapping paper designs for major
stores, a New Year's greeting from friends and early self-portraits.
The ingenuity of Escher's work is
fully revealed on the top floor of Het Paleis, where computer animation is used
to throw a whole new light on the familiar pictures. This totally unique
Virtual Reality experience will whirl you away on a thrilling 360-degree voyage
of discovery right into the worlds of M.C. Escher
