Drents Museum

The Drents Museum is an artwork and records museum in Assen inside the province of Drenthe within the Netherlands. The museum become opened in 1854. It has a collection of prehistorical artifacts, applied art, and visible art. The museum also has transient exhibitions. In 2013, it had 227,000 site visitors. The museum became founded through the King's Commissioner of Drenthe on November 28, 1854 because the Provincial Museum of Drents Antiquities. On November 6, 2007, the museum introduced that architect Erick van Egeraat changed into selected to design a brand new extension for the museum. Total fees had been expected at eighteen million euro. From summer 2010 to summer season 2011 the museum became closed.

At the beginning of 2010, a brand new present day depot facility for approximately ninety,000 gadgets and works of artwork became completed. The new wing become opened formally in November 2011. The museum carried out a CT scan and endoscopy of a stature of Buddha that documented the presence of a mummy diagnosed as that of a monk, Liuquan, a Buddhist grasp of the Chinese Medical School. The statue is reported so far to the 11th or twelfth century. The mummy will be placed on show on the Hungarian Natural History Museum through May 2015.