Hendrikje Cup Museum

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Hendrikje Cup Museum

The Hendrikje Mug Museum (English: Museum of Bags and Purses , German: Taschenmuseum Hendrikje ) in the center of Amsterdam was (also according to its own statement) with more than 4000 handbags and shoulder bags, suitcases and wallets as the largest collection of bags in the world . The fashion museum showed the 500-year history of the various bags, their great diversity, materials and appearance as well as social and societal developments.

The announcement of the final closure of the Hendrikje Bag Museum in April 2020 was the first of a cultural institution in the Netherlands as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic .

history

The museum emerged from a private collection of Hendrikje Ivo, who collected bags for 35 years, including school bags, suitcases, handbags and shoulder bags. Her interest began with a leather bag from 1820. In 1996, in Amstelveen , she opened the first public exhibition in her apartment. After ten years the space was no longer sufficient because of the increasing number of bags and visitors. An anonymous donor made it possible to move to a 17th-century building on Herengracht . Her daughter, Sigrid Ivo, is currently (as of June 2015) director of the museum.

The history of the building on Herengracht, where the museum is located, began in 1664 when Pieter de Graeff gave the order to build the house ( Pand ). The last resident, Maria van Eik, bought the house in 1893 for 44,000 guilders . She lived there until the end of her life in 1906. In 1907 the building was sold to the "Hollandsche Brabd Societeit" and until 2007 had various owners and tenants. The Hendrikje Mug Museum has been located there since 2007 . The building is a listed building ( Rijksmonument No. 1632)

Garden in the Hendrikje Cup Museum

In 2013 the Amsterdam Canal Belt ( Grachtengordel ), which also includes the Herengracht, existed for 400 years. On this occasion, an exhibition about the families and people who lived in this building over the centuries was shown in the mug museum. The original ceiling paintings in two rooms from the 17th and 18th centuries are also worth seeing. Twice a year the museum organizes a special exhibition. The collections are divided into the centuries 1500 to 1700, 1700 to 1800, 1800 to 1900 and the years 1900 to 1950, 1950 to 2000 and from 2000.

The museum is privately owned and financed by donations and entrance fees. There is a museum café, a museum shop with books, maps and bags by Dutch and international designers . A garden ( Grachtentuin ) belongs to the museum and can be used by visitors. For festive occasions, for example birthdays, marriages, Mother's Day or fashion shows, rooms can be rented for up to 50 people. There are also five different workshops where those interested can make bags themselves. Various activities are offered for children between eight and twelve years of age and for school classes. There are some house rules: Smoking is not permitted in the museum, as is taking photos in the exhibition rooms and using cell phones. There is an elevator for wheelchair users.

In 2011 the Mug Museum received the Time Out Award for “Best Specialty Museum van Amsterdam”.

In 2012 there was the "record number" ( Recordaantal ) of 82,760 visitors.

Transport links

The museum is located behind the Rembrandtplein and can be reached from the Central Station with the Amsterdam tram lines (Tramlijn, Tram) No. 9 (Rembrandtplein stop), No. 4, 16, 24 and 25 (as of January 2013). The museum on the canal ( canal ) can also be reached with a water taxi. The water taxi arrives across from the Cup Museum, at Herengracht No. 552 (as of January 2013).

See also

literature

  • Sigrid Ivo: Bags: A Selection from the Museum of Bags & Purses Amsterdam: The Museum of Bags and Purses, Amsterdam. Uitgeverij Pepin Press, Amsterdam 2004. ISBN 978-90-5496-143-7 (In English, German, French and Spanish)

Web links

Commons : Hendrikje Mug Museum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amsterdamse Kunstraad  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . May 2012. Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kunstraad.nl  
  2. ↑ Mokums - Typically Amsterdam . Brief information about the Hendrikje Mug Museum. Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013
  3. ↑ Hendrikje Mug Museum ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iamsterdam.com
  4. ↑ Het eerste slachtoffer in de culturele sector is een feit: het Tassenmuseum in Amsterdam sluit de deuren, Volkskrant.nl, 30-04-2020
  5. ↑ Weixin Zha: Europe's largest bag museum has to finally close due to the coronavirus outbreak. April 30, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Amstelveenweb . Cup Museum - 2005. With photos. Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013
  7. ↑ Information about the museum . Dutch, accessed June 16, 2015
  8. ↑ HistoriaEvents . Among other things about the creation of the museum. Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013
  9. ↑ History of the building ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tassenmuseum.nl
  10. ↑ Rijksmonument No. 1682 . Retrieved March 8, 2013
  11. ↑ "galeries.nl" . Time Out Award for Cup Museum Hendrikje. Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013
  12. ↑ Recordaantal bezoekers voor Cup Museum Hendrikje . In the Volkskrant newspaper of December 20, 2012. Dutch, accessed March 8, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '54.89 "  N , 4 ° 53' 48.65"  O