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By toasting with medieval glasses, Ambassador Hartog Levin, Museum Director Brouwer, Mayor de Graaf and a Lady in Waiting opened the exhibit at the Valkhof in Nijmegen. Photo: Gerard Verschooten
Ambassador Hartog Levin's provincial visit to Gelderland
October 9 During her first provincial visit to the Province of Gelderland, Ambassador Hartog Levin and her husband visited Nijmegen. She started off with a visit to the American Company Mead Johnson Nutrition, which is one of the 1600 American companies which have operations in the Netherlands.
At the Radboud University, she had a roundtable meeting with a group of American Studies students and Professor Hans Bak.
In the afternoon, the Ambassador was welcomed by Mayor Thom de Graaf at Nijmegen City Hall. She received a short presentation on the Ambassador’s family history in Nijmegen which are located in the Regional Archives. A walk through the historic town center and a visit to the Synagogue completed this part of the visit.
She then opened the miniatures exhibition : ’Catherine’s world. Devotions, demons and daily life in the 15th century’ in Museum het Valkhof.
At the exhibition, the most important late medieval manuscript from the Northern Netherlands, the hours of Catherine of Cleves (c. 1440) will be on display. This anonymous masterpiece from the Morgan Library & Museum in New York will be disbound for the occasion so that more than 100 pages can be viewed separately in Nijmegen.
A reduced version of the exhibition will be on show at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York from February 5 to May 2, 2010.