The Tulip Museum in Amsterdam was founded and funded by a local company that produces these flowers. It is located in the Jordan area and introduces visitors to the history of tulip cultivation in Holland, including detailed information on “tulip mania” and the amazing financial role that the flower played during the Golden Age of Holland in the mid-seventeenth century. The museum provides historical information throughout the year, used at festivals and tulip markets, which are still an integral part of the Dutch countryside.
Flower History and Culture
The museum is small in size, but it presents an extensive exposition of interesting historical evidence. Here you can find out about the period of "tulip mania", about the fact that the bulbs were eaten during the wars, and that Turkey is the birthplace of flowers. In the museum you can even get acquainted with modern technologies for growing and breeding tulips. Attention visitors are invited to a collection of paintings depicting tulips by Judith Leicester, a seventeenth-century artist who was a colleague of the famous Dutch portrait painter Frans Hals.
Tulips in Amsterdam
If you want to buy tulip souvenirs, go to the gift shop at this small museum. Be sure to visit the Tulip Museum in Amsterdam: here for a small fee you will get acquainted with a very peculiar page of Dutch history. The museum is located just opposite the bridge at the Anne Frank House-Museum, and its visit is easy to include in a tour of the area. The nearest stop is called Westerkerk, and trams number 1, 2 and 5 or buses number 21 and 171, which also stop here, are suitable for you.