Amsterdam’s new ‘underground’ museum

Amsterdam has a new north-south metro line, and with it two new museums, one in a subway station and the other online, sharing the 700,000 objects recovered during construction of the six-mile line.

Ranging in age from Neolithic and Bronze Age funeral items and tools to remains of Roman banquets to modern-day mobile phones and bicycle keys, the objects were preserved, sorted and cataloged.

At the Rokin station, about 9,500 objects are on display in glass cases to be seen as you pass them on the station’s escalators, but since there’s no way to stop and browse, officials have created Below the Surface, a virtual museum to show off the treasures—all of them.

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6 years ago

Most European Cities have been occupied by man for thousands of years.

It’s hard to dig a hole without something of interest coming up.

All the items that I have found in my garden were explained when I was informed this area was an Army Training Camp in 1914 – 1919.

Liverpool City Centre gets evacuated when a 1,000 pound bomb from 1942 gets unearthed during building work. Maybe once every 5  years.

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