Utrecht - Catharijneconvent National Museum

(Local Name: Rijksmuseum Het Catharijneconvent) At Nieuwe Gracht 63, in a former hospice of the Order of St John, is the Catharijneconvent National Museum (Rijksmuseum Het Catharijneconvent), which is concerned with the history of Christianity in the Netherlands. Opened in 1978, it brought together the collections of the Haarlem Episcopal Museum, the Archiepiscopal Museum of Utrecht and the Old Catholic Museum, and is now the country's largest collection of medieval art treasures, with sections devoted to church interiors, religious beliefs, the worship of the saints and medieval monasteries. There is also much 17th and 18th century material. Among notable exhibits are liturgical vestments, valuable Books of Hours and a model of the Cathedral in its original form, with explanations of its architectural history.

Within this convent is a museum of the history of Christianity in Holland. To be found in this museum is the largest collection of medieval art in The Netherlands.

One of the finest displays of embroidered Flemish church vestments of the late Middle