Museum Jan
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Location in the greater Amsterdam area | |
Established | 1991[2] |
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Location | Dorpsstraat 50[1] Amstelveen, Netherlands |
Coordinates | 52°18′08″N 4°50′48″E / 52.3023°N 4.8466°ECoordinates: 52°18′08″N 4°50′48″E / 52.3023°N 4.8466°E |
Type | Art museum |
Founder | |
Website | museumjan |
Museum Jan (until january 2020 Museum Jan van der Togt) is a modern visual art museum in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It was established by 1991 by , an industrialist who was also the founder of the company Tomado who was a collector of contemporary art.
He wanted his collection to remain together and formed a foundation for this. Besides a permanent collection of paintings and sculptures, the museum has an important collection of modern glass art such as Libenský & Brychtová, Maria Lugosi and . They include masterpieces of avant-garde Czech glass artists such as and .
Besides exhibitions from the permanent collection there are exhibitions several times a year, featuring notable artists in the modern visual art field such as Eugène Brands, Karel Appel, Ans Wortel, Anton Heyboer and Hugo Claus.
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- Art museums established in 1991
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