To attract more visitors. The Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam opened a tattoo office
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The Rembrandt van Rijn House-Museum in Amsterdam has opened a tattoo parlor in one of its premises. It will work within the next week. Read UP.Culture in Telegram By paying from 50 to 250 euros, museum visitors will be able to receive a permanent reminder of the greatest representative of the golden age of Dutch painting, Accosiated Press reports. As part of the project called A Poor Man’s Rembrandt, Amsterdam’s best tattoo artists will work here. Director of the museum Milu Halbesma explained that in this way they want to attract new visitors and bring people closer to the artist’s work. The best Amsterdam craftsmen will work in the museum. Photo: Museum Rembrandthuis “This juxtaposition is a jump from high to low [мистецтва], from high-minded to low-key. And it’s great that these two worlds can intersect. In fact, it’s one world, because it’s about art,” said one of the tattooists Hank Schiffmacher. Examples of sketches. Photo: Museum Rembrandthuis He said that he and his colleagues adapted several Rembrandt sketches to turn them into tattoos. For example, lines had to be made thinner so that they would not merge over time. “We have a different ‘canvas,'” says Schiffmacher. – It can talk to you, move too much, even faint. Rembrandt didn’t have that.” Examples of sketches. Photo: Museum Rembrandthuis Museum employee Lilian Rahmaran was one of the first to get a tattoo based on Rembrandt’s sketches. The master depicted on her skin an Asian elephant that arrived in Amsterdam in 1633 on a ship from Ceylon. One of the of the first tattoos – the image of an elephant. Photo: museumrembrandthuis / Instagram And here is the original authorship of Rembrandt. Photo: museumrembrandthuis / Instagram According to the director of the museum, the tattoo room is already popular. All places for this week that could be booked online were taken within 10 minutes. For those who did not make it in time, there is an opportunity to wait for the opportunity to get a tattoo right in the museum. Ready tattoos. Photo: Instagram The Rembrandt House Museum is the house in which the artist lived in Amsterdam from 1639 to 1658. The artist’s workshop was located on the second on the third floor, and the students’ workshops were on the third.Rembrandt tried to buy the building, but he was unable to pay the full amount of the loan and he was evicted from there and the house was sold. By the beginning of the 20th century, the building changed several owners, and in 1907, the dilapidated historical building was purchased by the municipality of Amsterdam, and handed over to the Rembrandt Foundation. Therefore, the building was restored and given its original appearance – in 1911, the new museum was opened by Queen Wilhelmina. Museum building. Photo: Museum Rembrandthuis Read also: The house-museum of Polina Raiko in Oleshki was almost completely destroyed by the flood. VIDEO
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