Kröller-Müller Museum
Forest museum in De Hoge Veluwe with 88 Van Gogh paintings and one of Europe's largest sculpture gardens.
The museum grew out of the private collection of Helene Kröller-Müller, who bought almost 11,500 works between 1907 and 1922 and gave them to the Dutch state in 1935 on condition that a museum be built on the family estate. Henry van de Velde's long, low transitional building opened in 1938 as a supposedly temporary structure and has remained ever since. Wim Quist added a larger wing in 1977, and the whole complex sits within the fenced Hoge Veluwe National Park.
Its Van Gogh holding, 88 paintings and around 180 drawings, is the second largest in the world after the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Alongside it hang works by Seurat, Signac, Picasso, Mondrian and Bart van der Leck. Outside, a sculpture garden of about 25 hectares contains more than 160 pieces by artists including Rodin, Moore, Dubuffet, Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet's walk-in Jardin d'émail. Visitors commonly reach the museum on the park's free white bicycles.
Highlights
- 88 Van Gogh paintings, the second-largest holding anywhere
- 25-hectare sculpture garden with over 160 works
- Jean Dubuffet's walk-in Jardin d'émail
- Henry van de Velde's 1938 building set in woodland and heath
