Rembrandt House Museum - Rooms

Rooms

The visitor begins in the modern building next door which is also owned by the museum. Passing into the house at basement level, the visitor sees the large kitchen, where the whole household ate, and the maid slept. Rembrandt's printing studio contains a printing press on which reproduction etchings are printed using traditional methods, with demonstrations for visitors. The ground floor contains a large entrance hall with two reception rooms, used by Rembrandt as showrooms for his work, and the other paintings in which he dealt. He slept in one of these rooms, in a bed built into a sort of cupboard. His large studion is upstairs, as is a room dedicated to his collection, which included a large collection of prints and drawings in portfolios, but also antique sculpture casts, exotic ethnological artefacts and various specimens of natural history, including coral and shells. Another room was where his pupils worked.

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