Yesterday we went to the Frans Hals Museum, together with Wouter. Parts of the museum had been renovated, so from 19:30 till 22:00 there was free entrance. They had guides giving short explanations at various paintings, and there was life-music too (Mozart).
It's a very nice museum. Personally I like paintings with cities and buildings the best. Seeing your own city is even more special. There were many paintings of the Grote Markt, various hofjes and the Adriaan. One I like very much showed the Spaarne flowing towards Haarlem, from the same angle as we see it from our window. Instead of buildings and a road there were cows on green field next to the river: the city was much smaller then.
A remarkable thing is that we didn't see any paintings of Frans Hals! We saw paintings from his brother Dirck and from other famous Haarlem painters, but no Frans Hals.
