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What national museum keeps a memorial of Dirk Hartog's visit to Australia?

  • Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

  • The British Museum

  • The Louvre

  • Smithsonian Museum

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The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is the national museum of the Netherlands. It has a collection of over 8,000 objects from the Middle Ages to the present day, including many paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Frans Hals. The museum also keeps a memorial of Dirk Hartog's visit to Australia. Hartog was a Dutch explorer who landed on the west coast of Australia in 1616.
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