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Museum van Loon
The history of this magnificent patrician house--one of a matched pair dating from 1672--is a long saga of ne'er-do-well spouses and ailing orphans, of misguided inheritances and successive bankruptcies. The elegant home was owned by the van Loon family from 1884 to 1945. On its walls hang more than 80 van Loon family portraits, including those of Willem van Loon, one of the founding fathers of the Dutch East India Company; Nicolaes Ruychaver, who liberated Amsterdam from the Spanish in 1578; and another, later, Willem van Loon, who became mayor of Amsterdam in 1686. Also unique among the treasures are a family album in which you can see tempera portraits of all living van Loons painted at two successive dates (1650 and 1675), and a series of commemorative coins struck to honor seven different golden wedding anniversaries celebrated between the years 1621 and 1722. The house's completely restored period rooms are filled with richly decorated paneling, stucco work, mirrors, fireplaces, furnishings, porcelain, medallions, chandeliers, rugs, and more. The garden has carefully tended hedges and a coach house modeled on a Greek temple.
Keizersgracht 672
(near Vijzelstraat).
Phone: 020/624-5255 .
Open: Fri-Mon 11am-5pm.
Admission Dfl 7.50 adults, Dfl 5 seniors 65 and over, free for children 12 and under.
Tram: 16, 24, or 25 to Vijzelstraat.
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