Museum Jan

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 Jan van der Togt, an industrialist who was also the founder of the company Tomado who was a collector of contemporary art.

Museum Jan

Museum in 2010
Location in the greater Amsterdam area
Established	1991^[2]
Location	Dorpsstraat 50^[1] Amstelveen, Netherlands
Coordinates	52°18′08″N 4°50′48″E / 52.3023°N 4.8466°E / 52.3023; 4.8466
Type	Art museum
Founder	Jan van der Togt
Website	museumjan.nl

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 Bruno Pedrosa. They include masterpieces of avant-garde Czech glass artists such as Vaclav Cigler and Ales Vasicek.

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.

View of room in Museum Jan van der Togt

References

1. (in Dutch) Home, Museum Jan van der Togt. Retrieved on 1 June 2015.
2. (in Dutch) Over ons, Museum Jan van der Togt. Retrieved on 1 June 2015.

External links

 

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