Friends of Van Loon

Becoming a Friend

Museum Van Loon receives no structural funding and is dependent on admission fees and private financial support. If you want to help preserve this unique 17th-century canal house complex, you can become a Friend of the museum. Friends get free access to the museum and are invited to exhibition openings and other events, such as the garden party and the summer garden opera.

You can become a Friend of Van Loon for € 60 per year. We look forward to a large circle of friends, and hope to meet you at one of our activities.

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Van Loon 100

Van Loon 100 is a club of 100 young professionals from all sectors of society who together ensure that Museum Van Loon will still be lively a hundred years from now.

The museum organizes four to six events a year for members of the Van Loon 100, to keep them up to speed of what goes on in the museum. Of course there is also plenty of time to have a drink and catch up with other members. Membership costs € 35 per year and is strictly personal.

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Friends agenda

Michiel van Musscher (1645-1705)

On March 9, 2012 the Museum Van Loon opens the exhibition Michiel van Musscher (1645 -1705) the Wealth of the Golden Age. It is the first exhibition of the work of Van Musscher. It is also the first exhibition to take place in the recently opened coach house of the museum, which makes it possible to view the collection family portraits in the canal house as well.

At the end of the 17^th century Van Musscher was a successful portraitist. Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin, visiting the capital in 1687, deemed him the very best Amsterdam painter for small portraits. His portraits hung literally door to door in the Golden Bend of the Amsterdam Herengracht. Next to many Amsterdam regents he also portrayed Tsar Peter the Great.

Van Musscher’s portraits are painted in the tradition of Netscher and Van Mieris. His work is of an unequalled quality and shows a great richness in details. From the exuberant way the Dutch elite had themselves displayed the wealth of the Golden Age is amply highlighted.

The exhibition of Michiel van Musscher shows not only his more famous paintings from Dutch collections and the museum itself, but also a significant number of paintings from private collections and international museums. The exhibition is a tribute to the work of Van Musscher and visualizes the latter days of the Dutch Golden Age.

A book will be published to commemorate this remarkable exhibition.

During the exhibition a surcharge of € 2,- is applied on the regular entry fee.

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