Avast, ye land lubbers! The Westfries Museum opened a new exhibit and does her best to provide it with publicity! For Piraten van de Lage Landen (Pirates of the Low Countries) Pictura hoisted the pirate flag as well and helped with an exciting website for children and photographs for an article in the Noord-Hollands Dagblad.

Soleyman Reis
The romance of the pirate life has captured people's imaginations for centuries. It has done so also in Hoorn, residence of the famous Dutch pirate Sulayman Reis. Dirk de Veenboer from Hoorn operated as privateer for the Dutch Republic, but because it did not provide him with enough wealth, he decided to join the Barbary Corsairs. They operated from the North African coast, then part of the Ottoman Empire. When he converted to the islam, Dirk was made Admiral of the Turkish empire by the Ottoman sultan. Since then, he was known as Sulayman Reis.

Claas Compaen
Aside from Dirk, there were other pirates during the 17th century with colorful names such as Grote Pier, Houtebeen (Peg Leg) and the Dancer. Piet Hein and Claas Compaen also belonged to these infamous privateers of old. Claes Compaen was born in the second half of the Eighty Years' War and learned his seamanship on privateers. At the end of his carreer as a privateer he had conquered more than three hundred and fifty ships. No wonder, then, that he is the main character on the exhibit website of the Westfries Museum. He guides children through adventurous questions towards a special access code for the exhibit, allowing them to hunt for a real pirate treasure!

Pictura
The Noord-Hollands Dagblad edition of the 8th of April had an article about Dirk de Veenboer with atmospheric photographs and a beautiful collage by one of our photographers. The exhibit website of the Westfries Musuem was also made by Pictura. Pictura brings color to your publications with magnificent photographs that lure people to your institute like a treasure map lures treasure hunters. Our thematic websites allow people to experience your exhibit online as if it were one big adventure.

Would you like to know more?
We can enrich your press releases with beautiful graphical material or create thematic websites or printed matter to support your exhibit. We do not merely offer the security of high-quality digitization but can also input and publish your heritage. For more information you can contact our account manager digitization, Jeroen Bloothoofd.