page_title: Teylers Oval Room
hierarchical_section_title: Teylers Oval Room
caption_attribution_description: Painting of the Oval Room of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
context_page_description: The Oval Room in the Teylers Museum was the first part of the museum that was opened in 1784. It could be entered through the garden of the fundatiehuis, the former home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst. The building has an oval shape built around its centerpiece, a mineralogical cabinet. The Oval Room consists of two floors; the ground floor with its display cabinets and a gallery of books that connects to the Teylers Library. On top of the room, on the roof, the astronomical observatory used to be a landmark that could be seen for miles along the river Spaarne. The gallery and observatory are longer accessible to the public, though the gallery can be seen from the ground floor.
context_section_description: The Oval Room in the Teylers Museum was the first part of the museum (though it was not called a museum yet) that was opened in 1784. It could be entered through the garden of the fundatiehuis, the former home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst. The building has an oval shape built around its centerpiece, a mineralogical cabinet. The Oval Room consists of two floors; the ground floor with its display cabinets and a gallery of books that connects to the Teylers Library. On top of the room, on the roof, the astronomical observatory used to be a landmark that could be seen for miles along the river Spaarne. The gallery and observatory  are longer accessible to the public, though the gallery can be seen from the ground floor.
caption: Painting by the museum art curator Wybrand Hendriks in 1800 of the interior of the Oval Room, showing the elektriseermachine of Martin van Marum
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "KS 009, 20-06-2005, 10:44,  8C, 7794x10382 (96+194), 100%, Dinsdag,  1/80 s, R53.7, G24.1, B33.0", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh", "Image DateTime": "2011:10:19 11:45:37", "Image Artist": "Martijn Zegel", "Image Copyright": "Copyright Teylers Museum Haarlem", "Image ExifOffset": "344", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3200", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2350"}