The sprawling state museum complex consists of a number of buildings, including the grand green-and-white Winter Palace, the former home of the Russian Tsars.
Luca Bondioli of the National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnology in Rome and his colleagues described the results of their study in the journal Antiquity.
Housed in a strikingly palatial building, Amsterdam's famed Rijksmuseum is the largest museum in the Netherlands and home to a world-renowned collection of art and artefacts.
J. William Middendorf, the former American ambassador to the Netherlands, made the presentation to Mr Drees and the rock was then donated to the Rijksmuseum after his death in 1988.
Tour the city's numerous canals and historic canal houses on a canal cruise orby foot, and make sure to visit the Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank House, the RembrandtHouse, and the Van Gogh Museum.
It has more national museums, more musical performances and venues, more public art galleries and more major theatres than all its competitors, the report by the London Development Agency has found.
It has more national museums, more musical performances and venues, more public art galleries and more major theatres than all its competitors, the report by the London Development Agency has found.
