Date: Wednesday 22nd of April, 2026
Time of arrival: 09.00
RI: Mohar Málá (1848-1961, Suriname)
Objectnummer NG-2023-71
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Mohar-mala-ketting-met-munten-uit-verschillende-landen- -88e8685cb7169802e6c846ffc6b07390?tab=data
R2: Chair, Firma Gebroeders Horrix (1875, Den Haag, Netherlands)
Objectnummer BK-1971-257-C
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Stoel-afwisselend-glanzend-en-dof-zwart-geschilderd-en-versierd-met-vergulde- randen-en-enkele-goudkleurige-beslagstukjes-Bekleed-met-oranje-velours--d999ddf3cd30afb47b3d40ad8602a4af?tab=data
R3: Tafel met onderstel van gebeeldhouwd en verguld lindehout (1689, Antwerp, Netherlands)
Objectnummer BK-1962-49
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Tafel--ca1c3a63380ea18dd8be8ba2ee8df638?tab=data
R4: Wollen mutsen van Nederlandse walvisvaarders (ca. 1650-ca. 1700)
Objectnummer NG-2006-110-2
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Wollen-mutsen-van-Nederlandse-walvisvaarders- -4a1799fb8721436c16f9662d9525067e?tab=data
R5: Kist, toegeschreven aan Koami-werkplaats, Kioto (ca. 1635-ca. 1645, Kyoto, Japan)
Objectnummer AK-RAK-2013-3-1
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Kist--f2e92177d7028a86492b585fddd3c0de?tab=data
R6: Vat in de vorm van een gans (ca. 1575-ca. 1600, Milan, Italy and ca. 1640-ca. 1660, Augsburg, Germany)
Objectnummer BK-17133
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Vat-in-de-vorm-van-een-gans--53ed68fe89c495b76f7140189d4db45a?tab=data
R7: Taoïstische godheid (collection)/godin (exhibit) (ca. 1500-ca. 1600, China)
Objectnummer AK-RAK-2014-6
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Taoistische-godheid--79b5f814db0b5c6d73da9e7a90ddf111?tab=data
Reflection:
The line just to get in was relatively long, but I suppose I wasn’t the only one who thought going early was a good idea. At least it was less crammed once I got inside and people spread out, but it was a sharp contrast to Stedelijk on Monday, or my Werreldmuseum visit(s, even). There is a decent amount of objects, a lot of it is glass and/or metal tableware though, which I find challenging to render properly with limited supplies and/or they’re often in the middle of rooms and I feel like I would be a bother. I attempted to do the thing of just continuing to draw every time I had to move, but either I sort of forgot and just continued based on what I COULD see and moved back as soon as possible, and when I was conscious and tried to do it I barely had to move, and you couldn’t really tell.
I’m still not sure what materials are good, if I should perhaps bring a smaller fineliner, or if it’s just my skills.
I got to spend the most time with the whaler’s hat, which I think you can tell, because most people just passed them by when they entered the room, and I found a corner to stand in where I was never in anyone’s way. I suppose I also had the right colours for it, although my cream coloured pencil didn’t render the wear and tear like I wanted it to. In a way I suppose this is also the only object I sort of have a relation to? Not that I’ve ever been to Svalbard personally, although I know people who have, I’ve never been further North than Tromsø, but perhaps it has to do with the wool and the fishing and it being a part of Norway, which means they always say what the weather will be like up there. There was a Danish family who passed by and had a look at them, which was nice in a way, at first I thought they were speaking Norwegian. Sometimes it feels funny, thinking they might not know I understand what they’re saying. There was a guide walking past with a group of mostly Americans, I think, and she said something about Spitsbergen being an alternative name for Svaldbard? I’m not sure if I misremember if that’s what she said the Dutch call Svaldbard? Either way, whatever she said she must have misrembered, since it’s a PART of Svaldbard, but what I DID learn is that Spitsbergen is Dutch and means “pointy mountains”. Since “berg” is a Norwegian word I never thought much of it, but hearing it and now knowing some Dutch that makes sense. Spitsbergen always makes me think of the weatherforecast on the evening news and the radio, which reminds me of home. Maybe that’s why I liked the hat.
A few hours later:
Funny. I went back into the NRK’s log, and found the evening news from exactly twenty years ago (I didn’t remember those graphics, but I suppose that makes sense, since I was only four), and one of the headlines was that Dutch people were moving to depopulated Norwegian areas. Coincidences are funny, I guess.