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Stars of the Collection
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ANNUAL REPORT 2025
Our annual reports are available online. Click on the image to see what the team got up to in 2025.
Stars
Stars of the collection
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The Taste of Water
This is a conductometer, also known as a conductivity meter. It is used to measure the electrical conductivity of liquids,…
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Homegrown design
In the 1950s, this illuminated advertisement indicated that the premises housed a café. A ‘brown café,’ that is: a typical Dutch…
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A touch of Paris in Aalsmeer
Who doesn’t know them: the azure water siphons so popular as interior decoration? They evoke the nostalgic atmosphere of…
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Back in the home port
Delft-born artist Piet Cottaar junior (1908-1984) worked in Rotterdam almost his entire life, and for the same employer at that.…
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Touching base with beer
It is 1 June 1982. Alfred Henry Heineken , better known as Freddy, raises a toast in the Amsterdam Heineken Brewery on the…
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A masterful portrait
‘You’re not pulling my leg, are you?’ Freddy Heineken seems to be asking with that one permanently raised eyebrow. His…
