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Het gedroomde museum I

The own collection as reflection

12 October  – 12 January, 2025

Museum Belvédère will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in November! As part of its twentieth anniversary, the collection presentation will be supplemented for the first time with loans from private collections. Similarities of style and spirit serve as a guideline.

With the first edition of Het gedroomde museum / The Dreamed Museum, Museum Belvédère wants to create special dialogues between works of art from its collection and (inter)national masterpieces. The anniversary exhibition also shows how new perspectives can continuously change and enrich the view of fixed values.

Museum Belvédère regards its art collection as a constant source of inspiration for all museum activities. In order to be able to assess the collection with fresh eyes, it - as the only museum in the Netherlands - rigorously changes its collection presentations three to four times a year and supplements them with work from guest exhibitors.

Thanks to this formula, the museum can display its works of art in continually surprising compositions. In the anniversary exhibition, Museum Belvédère gives a new interpretation to this formula and draws attention to its own collection and to masterpieces from private collections that relate to it.

In the exhibition The Dreamed Museum, highlights from the museum collection are supplemented with paintings by:

Ben Akkerman, Wobbe Alkema, Karel Appel, Armando, Else Berg, Edgar Fernhout, Leo Gestel, Frieda Hunziker, Bart van der Leck, Lou Loeber, Albert Marquet, Piet Mondriaan, Jan Schoonhoven, Jan Sluijters, Sjoerd de Vries en vele anderen.