http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl The no-nonsense travel guide to Amsterdam, Holland Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:07:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other contemporaries of theirs will be seen in a magnificent display from 6 March 2010 to 17 September 2010 at the Hermitage Amsterdam.

The exhibition is titled, Pioneers of Modern Art Matisse to Malevich.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/843-pioneers-of-modern-art-hermitag-museum-amsterdam Hermitage Amsterdam is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, located in the largest 17th century building in town.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/841-hermitage-amsterdam Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum, the Museum of the Tropics, offers 8 permanent exhibitions as well as an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/838-tropenmuseum-royal-tropical-institute-amsterdam Amsterdam's most exclusive warehouse is saying goodbye to clothes by Mexx, the troubled Amsterdam-based design firm which just a few years ago was listed among the world's top fashion brands.

Saying the designer's apparel has become too run of the mill, the Bijenkorf says it will stop carrying Mexx's women's lines by this summer. It has already stopped carrying the firm's men's and children's clothes.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/836-amsterdam-warehouse-bijenkorf-drops-mexx Two buildings at Vijzelgracht, along the construction site for the new North/South line of the Amsterdam metro system, have subsided.

Shopkeepers in the buildings blame the construction work, while the metro project bureau simply says those buildings already had 'bad foundations.']]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/833-houses-along-amsterdam-metro-line-construction-subside The disappearance of the giant red letters 'A' and 'M' from Amsterdam's IAMSTERDAM marketing logo was a marketing stunt from Sony Computer Entertainment.

Locals are not amused by the theft.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/830-sony-behind-theft-of-iamsterdam-marketing-logo-letters Two letters of the enormous IAMSTERDAM marketing slogan have gone missing from the iconic logo's location at Museumplein

The letters -- 2 meters high and with a combined weight of 500 kilos -- were later advertised at a Dutch auction website. ]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/827-letters-go-missing-from-iamsterdam-marketing-slogan Dutch Railways (NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen) earn millions of Euros by duping tourists who travel from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to Central Station into buying First Class tickets.

NS claims that's what tourists want, but according to the VVV Tourist Office -- which also sells train tickets at the airport -- tourists usually elect to buy Second Class tickets. ]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/826-dutch-railways-dupe-tourists-into-buying-expensive-airport-amsterdam-tickets A collision between two metro trains in an Amsterdam station has left 31 people injured.

The low speed collision occurred at Wibautstraat station, when a train full of passengers ran into a stopped, empty metro train.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/824-amsterdam-metro-crash-injures-31 If you order a Heineken beer in an Amsterdam pub or restaurant there is a good chance that you'll be served an unbranded brew instead.

The beer flows from Heineken owned- and labeled taps and is served in Heineken glasses, but in reality comes from unbranded barrels originating from brewers with overcapacity in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/822-most-heineken-beer-in-amsterdam-is-fake