I tell you a secret. Sometimes when Jip and Janneke do not find nice topics to write in their heads just go to the Net and search… So one rainy day (nowadays we have enough of them ;) they did the same. And found something very interesting. Museum rooms in Utrecht….

But, hey, what exactly is a Museum Rooms??? - they asked each other. Is it a room in a museum you can book to sleep in? Or a room in a hotel, which contains old and historical objects?

"In conjunction with the seven 7th heaven museums, seven hotels in Utrecht are responsible for these very special hotel rooms that guarantee a very special night. These rooms are designed in the style of the museum, fitted out (with reference to and) using their collection. Besides a special hotel night in a museum room, there are also special packages which you can book with lovely dinners, free tickets for museum and a lot more…"

That's what you can read if you go on www.the7th-heaven.com.

As Jip and Janneke are very curious, they couldn't resist taking a peek inside two of them, to have a first hand touch.

They entered to the "Money room", where the armchairs have been made of the smashed old Dutch paper money "the Gulden". It is literally sitting on a bag of money! :) You can also find lamps and tables that have been made of old coins. And if you go to the place where even the King goes alone, you can see a toilet with special money design and also the bath curtain shows that money is everywhere….

They also went to the most famous one, which is the Nijntje room. Nijntje is a cute rabbit girl quite famous in the Netherlands. It is amazing how much the shape of his head remind us the shape of a very popular Japanese anime character, called Totoro. This could that be an explanation why this room is booked so often by Japanese people…

In this room everything shows Nijntje and her stuff and friends. The mirror, the blanket, the shower curtain, even the pattern of the curtain on the window. It is just a perfect room for children.

These rooms were born thanks to an excellent cooperation between the museums, hotels and municipality of Utrecht. They exist because 2006 is the year of museums in Utrecht!

Jip and Janneke really loved this initiative, because art is often “locked” inside museums, it has its own space out of ordinary life and this project brings art in our normal daily life.