Tuesday - Visit the extravagant Groninger Museum and its collection

There are few things more cheering in a grey, sad, humid mid-winter day such as today than visiting a colourful art exhibition in a quirky building.

The Groninger Museum delivers just that.

Rumour has it that the supposedly water proof building was in fact flooded during the first year of its existence, forcing curators to salvage precious works of art by ...  carrying them above their heads while swimming out the lower floors...

http://www.groningermuseum.nl/en