Hello mum!
I visited a typical Dutch sight today! I went with Marjolein on a schooltrip to Hilversum!
We went to the Centre for Images and Sound (Centrum voor Beeld en Geluid & www.beeldengeluid.nl), this is a sort of museum where they keep (almost) all the images and sounds ever transmitted by Dutch people. We weren't allowed to make photo's inside the building because of copyright, but the building itself is also beautiful.
The building is located in Hilversum. This is also the place, where the Dutch media is located. Especially in the area of the building of Beeld en Geluid. This is the Mediapark. Almost all the tv- and radiomedia work here.
In the mediapark, the Dutch politican Pim Fortuyn was murderered in 2002. He just had an interview on the radio.
Inside the building of Beeld en Geluid you can look at lots of old Dutch tv-shows. But they also have foreign tv. And cartoons. You name it, they have it! You can make your own radioshow or read the news. It was good fun!
They keep about 700.000 hours of radio, television, music and movies. That makes them one of the biggest audiovisual archieves of Europe. They keep all this stuff in about six stories under the ground.
Hugs Sunnie
