2655) Museums - Typically Dutch, Netherlands: PostNL (Netherlands Post) has issued a Postage Stamp of ‘Nederland 1’: Date of Stamp issue: 02.01.2023:
About Typically Dutch - Museums - Stamp Series:
On 02.01.2023, PostNL has released the "Typically Dutch – Museums Stamp Sheet".
This issue is the first in the Typically Dutch series this year.
The multi-annual series started in 2020 and, in 2023, will be dedicated to a variety of sights and attractions that are significant for and typical of the Netherlands.
The six identical postage stamps will be marked ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items weighing up to 20g destined for the Netherlands.
The "Typically Dutch – Museums" issue was designed by senior graphic designer Adam Lane and creative director Edwin van Praet from Total Design in Amsterdam.
Later on, this year, the series will continue with the subjects - "Mills" (13/02), "Flower Fields" (20/03), "Cheese Markets" (15/05) and "Wadden" (14/08).
About Museums in Netherlands:
The Netherlands loves a museum. It has many hundreds of museums attracting many millions of visitors, many of whom visit from abroad.
The oldest museum is the Teylers Museum in Haarlem (1784), while the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (1885) attracts the most visitors.
Museums in The Netherlands come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, with collections on all kinds of subjects - archaeology, architecture, design, photography, history, music, war, religion, painting, sports, technology, transport, ethnography and many more.
There is even a book dedicated to the Netherlands’ smallest museums, including the Electro Radio Nostalgia Museum, Jannie's Cow Museum and the Apple Museum Nederland.
Set against these museums for small groups of enthusiasts are the big crowd-pleasers.
In order of most visited, these are the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House, the Zaanse Schans, the EYE Film Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, the Kunstmuseum and the Dutch Open-Air Museum.
There are many other noteworthy museums in the Netherlands, such as the Bonnefanten museum in Maastricht, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Zeeuws Museum in Middelburg, the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht, Rijksmuseum Twente in Enschede, the Archaeological Open-Air Museum in Lelystad, the Drents Museum in Assen, the National Museum of Ceramics in Leeuwarden and the Groninger Museum.
The museum as we know it today – a building containing one or more collections of art objects – originates in the Renaissance and was later expanded to include things like objects related to natural history and technological history.
The word museum comes from the Greek word "mouseion". This was a site or temple dedicated to the muses, the goddesses of the arts.
The Stamp Sheet:
The stamps of the Typically Dutch - museums stamp sheet feature different sizes of picture frames and vases, symbolising the subject of this issue.
The iconic shapes are grouped in a tight pattern across the stamps. The pattern is interrupted on the sheet edge.
The background of the stamp sheet and stamps is a light shade of grey blue. The other colours tie in with this colour: a darker shade of grey blue for the smaller vase and the inside of the picture frames, dark yellow for the frames themselves and light yellow for the larger vase and the portrait in the oval frame.
Along the bottom of each stamp runs a white strip containing the sorting hook, the year 2023, the country (Nederland) and the denomination (1).
The logo for the Typically Dutch Stamp Series is printed above each stamp, with a folded Dutch banner on the left and right.
The Typically Dutch logo appears once more on the top edge of the sheet, while the right edge features a short explanatory text.
The title of this issue on museums in the Netherlands is printed in light yellow on the sheet border between the large pictorial logo at the top of the stamp sheet and the stamps.
The Nexa Thin and Nexa Rust (Svet Simov, Fontfabric, 2012) fonts have been used for the text on the stamps and stamp sheet.
The 2023 stamps for the multi-annual Typically Dutch series were once again designed by Total Design from Amsterdam.
The Stamp Sheet titled - 'MUSEA"
The First Day Cover (FDC) shows people visiting the Van Gogh Museum at bottom left. The FDC is titled "MUSEA".
At top right is affixed a postage stamp cancelled with a special Cancellation Handstamp/Postmark of the Van Gogh Museum - dated "02.01.2023".
The Presentation Pack (PP)
Technical details:
Issue Date: 16.01.2023
Designer(s): Adam Lane and Edwin van Praet, Total Design, Amsterdam
Printer: Cartor Security Printers, Meaucé-La Loupe, France
Process: Offset
Colours: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key-Black (CMYK)
Size:
Stamp Size: 40.00 mm x 30.00 mm
Sheet Size: 122.00 mm x 170.00 mm
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