H'ART Museum
Loan exhibitions from international partner museums, in the 17th-century Amstelhof beside the Amstel.
H'ART Museum occupies the Amstelhof, a long brick building on the bank of the Amstel put up in 1683 as a home for elderly women, a purpose it served for more than three centuries. The building was converted into a museum that opened in 2009 as Hermitage Amsterdam, showing loans from the State Hermitage in St Petersburg. That partnership was ended in 2022, and the institution took the name H'ART Museum the following year.
The museum now works with a group of international partners, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the British Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and builds its programme from their collections rather than from holdings of its own. Hans van Heeswijk led the conversion, opening the courtyard to the public and inserting new galleries while keeping the seventeenth-century church hall and regents' rooms. A Grand Café and the inner court can be visited alongside the exhibitions.
Highlights
- Set in the Amstelhof of 1683, once a home for elderly women
- Changing loan exhibitions from international partner museums
- Preserved 17th-century church hall and regents' rooms
- Inner courtyard and Grand Cafe open to visitors
