ABSTRACT
The National Maritime Museum takes a balanced approach to the interests of various categories of visitors, providing meticulous displays of precious collections of everything relating to the sea, both as a natural phenomenon and as a focus of human activity, along with edutainment trails and advanced electronic media-savvy presentations. The museum’s collection and narratives are predominantly related to The Netherlands, and particularly to its ‘golden age’, reflecting its rise as the leading sea power of those times, bringing prosperity, technical progress and flourishing arts to the Republic of the Seven United Lowlands; however, the curators deal honestly with the dark sides of otherwise positive processes of expanding the horizons.
