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Museum Of Fine Art: The city is attractively laid out. Many old tanals and moats remain, and the former ramparts have been replaced by gardens and lawns. The town hall (Stadhuis) in the marketplace was
•merly the palace of the counts of Holland, be-ri in the 14th century and several times re-red. The massive Grote Kerk, with its lofty ver and superb organ, is a 15th to early 16th :itury church. Other fine buildings are the lonial Museum, the Museum of Industrial Art, 3ie Teyler Foundation and Museum, and theAntwerp's Museum of Fine Arts is one of the two richest galleries in le Low Lands, rivaled only by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is a lace for browsing not by the hour but by the half day. And a private col-:ction of great interest is to be seen in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, n Lange Gasthuisstraat.
The Taft Museum on Pike Street, previously the home of President Taft's brother Charles Phelps Taft, is a fine example of Federal American architecture, in which paintings and art objects are displayed. The Cincinnati Art Museum in the Eden Park district houses a wide range of collections of famous works of art. Since 1869 it has operated an art academy. Nearby, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History offers a planetarium, a wilderness trail, and a reproduction of a cavern. |
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