Museum 5, 1930

• Virtual Museum Schielandhuis
• Paul van de Laar, real exhibition
• Five March, virtual reconstruction

In the preceding blog, some of these items here were already mentioned. A lot more can be told. Shops were getting really big, from shop to mall. The Bijenkorf was newly built. The Passage, dating from 1879, was a great success. On the other side of life there was the global the crisis and the unemployment. New flats, based on steel skeletons were built and Gispen made his modern designs for chairs. Several Gispen chairs are shown around the exhibition, and to spot the development in these designs is a joy for the eye.

The streetcar in the virtual exhibition can be made to move, and gives original streetcar sounds.
Traffic is getting denser, although a streetcar was still too expensive for a lot of people in Rotterdam.
Rotterdam is still proud to have had a world champion boxer amongst its citizens, Bep van Klaveren. The rise to importance of sport was paralleled by the rise of the cinema’s. Although there is no reference to it in the spoken documentation of the real exhibition, the people visiting the popular cinemas were contemptuously indicated by ‘people belonging to the culture of the hats with the big lids’. Some of these hats are shown.

Rotterdam, the working city, famous for a dancing? Who can imagine that? Indeed it was true: Pschorr was well known in Holland. People from nearby The Hague visiting it and taking back the last train to The Hague form the Hofplein. This last train was called "the perfume tran".

http://www.hmr.rotterdam.nl/