Tag: MARTIN VAN ROSSEM
Van Rossem talks about the day the Dom collapsed, exactly 350 years ago today
Many people know it and if you stand on the Domplein you can still see it clearly: there is only half a church there. A large part of the original…
Is the Utrecht stink ship exactly 1000 years old today? ‘The annual ring thicknesses are a kind of barcode’
Utrecht – Is the excavated Utrecht stink ship in the Centraal Museum exactly 1000 years old today? To answer that question in advance: we cannot date an excavated archaeological find…
Maarten van Rossem is disturbed by a lack of history knowledge: ‘We are careless with our past’
In front of the entrance to the Wilhelmina Park, where Van Rossem regularly takes a walk, he answers a few questions about the history of the Utrecht region. He’s got…