Museum Van Loon
Price guide: Mid-range
Keizersgracht 672, Amsterdam, 1017 ET
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Expert review of Museum Van Loon
Step back in time into a grand canal house as it might have looked in the Golden Age.
Quite a few patrician houses on the Canal Ring have been turned in to small-scale museums of one sort or another. Of these, the Museum Van Loon is my favourite. It occupies a private residence built in 1672, and takes its name after the last family to reside here - the Van Loons were an important lot: one of them was a founder of the Dutch East India Company, and another a mayor of Amsterdam. Their home looks the part for an ennobled family, with a rococo interior, marble-lined stairs, panelled walls, chandeliers and stucco work in spades, lots of Van Loon portraits…you get the picture. At the rear of the pretty garden lies a coach house that is being restored.
Price advice:
7 euros; children aged 6-18 and students 5 euros; under 6s, and those with I amsterdam Card and Museumkaart, free.
More information on Museum Van Loon :
- Price guide:
- Type:
- Historic site, Museum
- Address:
- Keizersgracht 672, Amsterdam, 1017 ET
- Telephone:
- 020 624 5255
- Website:
- http://www.museumvanloon.nl
- Months open:
- All year round
- Opening times:
- Daily except Tue 11am-5pm.
- Indoor/outdoor?:
- Indoor
