On November 1, 2013, Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands arrived in the town of Nes on the island of Ameland to open the new Burgemeester Walda Scholengemeenschap (school) building.
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HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands in Tilburg.
On October 30, 2013, Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands arrived in Tilburg to attend the conclusion of the European project, Requiem for Auschwitz.
According to PPE, purpose of Requiem for Auschwitz is to bring:
“…attention of the victims of the Holocaust, including 500,000 Roma and Sinti, and the contemporary situation of the Roma and Sinti community in Europe.”
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HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Opens Brains Unlimited.(VIDEO)
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrived at the Maastricht Health Campus to open the new Brains Unlimited Institute and Scannexus Lab.
According to the official website for Brains Unlimited and scanning lab:
“…is the place where researchers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs, under one roof, bring research from concept to commercialization.
Providing an integrated platform for the imaging community, Brains Unlimited helps scientists and companies to find the key to many common disorders, as well as gain more insight into the development of human behavior. Brains Unlimited has three MRI scanners with ultra high magnetic fields, including one of only four 9.4 Tesla scanners worldwide.”
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Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands Opens a Special Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum. (VIDEOS)
On Friday, October 18, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands arrived at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to open the special exhibition, Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde.
According to a press release from the Stedelijk Museum the exhibition is:
“…the largest survey in twenty years devoted to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935).
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam holds the largest collection of Malevich’s work outside of Russia, which was the subject of a large-scale exhibition at the museum in 1989.
Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde is a tribute to the artist and his contemporaries, as well as the culmination of 2013 as the year celebrating Dutch–Russian relations in the Netherlands.”
The exhibition will be open to the public on October 19, 2013 – February 2, 2014. For more information about Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde please click here.
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News Regarding HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. (VIDEO)
On the morning of October 17, 2013, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands arrived in Den Haag to officially open the new building of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken and Koninkrijksrelaties and the Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Ministry of Security and Justice).
Thereafter, His Majesty arrived at the Special Collections Department at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to open the special exhibition, Atlas der Neederlanden: De Dageraad van het Koninkrijk.
According to RVD the Atlas, “…consists of nine parts and contains 618 maps of the Netherlands from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.”
Atlas der Neederlanden: De Dageraad van het Koninkrijk will be open to the public on October 18, 2013 – January 19, 2014. If you are interested in learning more about the restoration of the Atlas please click here (in English).
Click here to watch a video from NOS about the Atlas.
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Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands Opens the New Isala Ziekenhuis. (VIDEOS)
On the morning of October 17, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands officially opened the new Isala Ziekenhuis (hospital) in Zwolle.
During today’s opening Her Majesty was given a tour of the new hospital — including the Amalia Kindercentrum — and met with staff as well as patients.
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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands Opens the FrieslandCampina Innovation Centre. (VIDEO)
On October 16, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands arrived at the Wageningen University & Research Centre in Wageningen to officially open the new FrieslandCampina Innovation Centre.
According to the official website for FrieslandCampina the new center will:
“…have a staff complement of 450, 350 of whom will work in research and development, is equipped with every facility. The building covers almost 20,000 square meters and contains laboratories, tasting rooms, a trial plant, support areas and offices.
It also houses an Experience Centre with an innovation kitchen and bakery sampling unit, where visitors and FrieslandCampina employees from all over the world can sample, smell and handle products…”
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