Museum De Lakenhal
The Lakenhal Museum ( Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal ), the Municipal Museum of Art and History in the Dutch Leiden . After renovation and expansion work, the museum reopened on June 20, 2019.
history
The building of the Lakenhal (Cloth Hall) was in 1640 by Arent van 'Gravensande as Gewandhaus built for the cloth merchant. The museum was founded in 1874 as the Municipal Museum (Stedelijk Museum), which houses the municipal art collections of Leiden.
Collections
The museum is known for its collection and exhibition of paintings from the Golden Age and the Leiden School of Leidseplein fijnschilders . The hall for viewing and assessing the delivered cloths, the Staalmesterskamer, and the large assembly hall in which disputes were negotiated, can be visited. There are large paintings by Isaac van Swanenburg with depictions of cloth production in the same places as for the establishment of the Lakenhal. Another oversized painting by Carel de Moor shows the inspectors at work in a large wooden frame decorated with their family crests. This painting is flanked by three historical allegories of the city of Leiden by Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel .
The altarpieces and religious works of art that were spared the destruction in the Reformed Iconoclasm of 1566 were officially adopted by the state in 1572. These were kept in Museum De Lakenhal. The museum also shows a replica of a statie , a Catholic mission station from the time after the Reformation. After the Reformation, the term mission station referred to the Catholic churches working in secret during the beginning of the Dutch Republic .
Web links
- Official website of the museum (English, Dutch)
- Museum De Lakenhal In: visitleiden.nl (German, Dutch, English)
- Museum De Lakenhal In: holland.com (German)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 47.6 " N , 4 ° 29 ′ 15.8" E