Amsterdam MuseumEvery country has its era of greatness: the Pax Romana, the Age of Enlightenment…some leaders today want to make their countries great again. The Dutch Golden Age spanned 150 years (1600-1750), and exhibitions in museums throughout Amsterdam bring the era’s characteristics of prosperity and greatness into focus. “The key elements in the Golden Age certainly were creativity, entrepreneurship, an international outlook,” Lidewig Koekkoek, General Manager of the Rembrandtshuis in Amsterdam. “The Dutch have always looked outward,” he continues, referring to the global trading that brought prosperity to the tiny nation. “It’s easy to look at the golden age from an upper-middle-class perspective,” Kiers adds.

Source: Forbes December 25, 2017 19:18 UTC