Stereofoto, Teylers Museum
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The beautiful Teyler Museum building at Haarlem, Netherlands.
This beautiful museum was founded as a gift of Pieter Teyler von der Hulst, who died in 1778. He was a wealthy Haarlem merchant who was greatly interested in scientific subjects. The old building in the Dam-Staat has been very much enlarged by a handsome wing in the Renaissance style. It is built on the side next to the Spaarne river, after plans furnished by the Christian Ulrich of Vienna. It is near the centre of the city, only a very short distance from the great church of St. Bavo. Few places in Haarlem are more easily reached. In summer it is open to visitors during five days of the week.
Teyler's museum includes a physical cabinet, with collections of chemical, optical, electric and other instruments. There is a geolog-
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Lat. 52° 30' N.; Long. 4° 30' E.
ical cabinet rich in minerals, and with fossils which prove that there were, ages before the time of man, animals more wonderful than the sea serpents about which we now hear but never see. There is a collection of one hundred pictures by the best artists of our own day. These are in a room lighted, from the roof. There is also a valuable collection of drawings and sketches by the old masters.
On the upper floor is a large auditorium, where scientific lectures are given. There is a fine library. In Mr. Teyler's plan funds are set apart for the issuing of a scientific publication Archives du Musee Teyler and a certain sum is also given to prizes each year for the best essays on scientific subjects.
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