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Museum Van Loon
Museum van Loon
The museum is named after the Van Loon family, the last residents of the house and founders of the museum. It was designed in 1672 by architect Adriaen Dortsman. The first owner was painter Ferdinand Bol, a student of Rembrandt. The canal house came into possession of the noble Van Loon family in 1884, when the Honourable Hendrik van Loon purchased it for his son Willem as a wedding present. The family’s rich history can be gleaned from the large collection of portraits in the museum, the oldest dating back to the 16th century. Museum Van Loon is the only museum in the Netherlands where the original unity of canal house with an 18th-century interior, original furniture, garden and coach house can be viewed in its entirety.
Museum Van Loon
Keizersgracht 672
1017 ET Amsterdam
Tel: +31 20 6245255
AAN DE SURINAAMSE GRACHTEN - VAN LOON & SURINAME (1728-1863)
| 05-10-2019 - 02-03-2020
With this exhibition the museum highlights for the first time the involvement of the 18th and 19th century Van Loon family with the WIC and Suriname. The exhibition shows the operation of the Amsterdam-Surinamese plantation economy on the basis of a range of historical characters, such as investors in Amsterdam (the Van Loons), befriended governors in Elmina and enslaved people on plantations in which investments were made. Descendants of these historical figures reflect in the exhibition on their and each other's (family) past and literally give this history a voice and face.
The exhibition is co-curated by Marian Duff (ao MAFB and OSCAM) and is being compiled in collaboration with Imagine IC. Integrated into the exhibition is fashion fest, the MAFB fashion program in which a next generation of fashion professionals convert the exhibition stories into new creations.
This project is supported by het Mondriaan Fonds, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, P.W. Janssen’s Friesche Stichting en de Gemeente Amsterdam.
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