Here, you'll "walk into" a beautiful Dutch interior from the 1600s.
 
• Discover that Holland hummed as a center of science, business, and art, and how the Dutch interest in scientific observation, optics, perspective, and mapping the natural world influenced art.
 
• Have fun creating your own Dutch still life in our Artists' Corner. Leave your drawing and it may be displayed!
 
• Put yourself in the center of a Dutch portrait wearing clothes of the period.
 
• Uncover the secrets Dutch painters used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. You'll use a camera obscura, a device Dutch artists employed to make their paintings realistic.
 
• Explore the relationship between art and science while searching for insects in unexpected places.