200411

Net gepost op flickr.com onder de titel "Museum the Alvazaal: the guide 7" en met het volgende bijschrift:

The building on Arnhem's main market square was of course first and foremost a place of (wine) business. In fact, the museum may well have been used as a form of advertising the wares of the firm.
Therefore we see a number of images in the guide depicting the workspaces of the office personnel and the owners themselves. Unfortunately the scan of the offices upstairs (middle) is somewhat blurred but I think it's the office of the brothers Hesselink themselves, who are thus depicted here at their desks opposite eachother. Note the beautiful (ceramic?) structure with the tasting barrels of their different wines.
The illustration at the top depicts another office, the one at the bottom the meetingroom. All of them are lavishly decorated and are full of Spanish and Portuguese artifacts.