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Museum Willet-Holthuysen

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Museum Willet-Holthuysen is a museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the Herengracht canal. It is, together with Museum Van Loon, the only fully furnished canalside patrician house in Amsterdam that is open to the public.

The museum has a large collection of silverware, plates, and books from the Dutch Golden Age It also has a substantial collection of art.

The house was built for Jacob Hop mayor of Amsterdam, around 1685. He was not the last mayor to own the house. In 1739 the outside was redesigned to look as it does today, in the highly fashionable Louis XIV style. The last private owner, Mrs. Willet-Holthuysen, bequeathed the entire house to the city of Amsterdam on condition that it became a museum in 1895. The curator named in that year was Frans Coenen Jr., a writer, composer, and art critic. It has been a museum ever since.

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Museum Willet-Holthuysen

Herengracht 605
1017 CE Amsterdam
Netherlands