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Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (http://www.minocw.nl)
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Information on the Dutch education system and policy on education, science, and culture. Also includes links to news, publications, and cultural sites. In Dutch, some English.

Museumserver (http://www.museumserver.nl/home%5Ffs%5Fuk.htm)
Directory for over 250,400 museums sites in the Netherlands. Includes interactive map and links to individual museum sites. Multiple languages.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl)
National Museum for Art and History. Information about the collections and services of the most famous Dutch art museum; features virtual tour of the museum with images and explanatory texts about the masterworks of Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer, and other artists. Includes links to visitor information, collections and exhibitions, and news and calendar. Searchable.

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (http://www.rmo.nl)
National Museum of Antiquities, in Leiden. Information about visiting the museum, collections, exhibitions, and archeological activities in four areas: Egypt, the Near East, classical antiquity, and the Netherlands, as well as related links. In Dutch and English.

U.S. Library of Congress. The American Folklife Center. Benelux Collections (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)(http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Benelux.html)
Finding Aid to collections in the American Folklife Center provides information on sound recordings and multiformat collections and glossary of select terms used in finding aid.

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