Stedelijk Museum

About

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was founded in 1874 by a group of Amsterdam citizens led by C.P. van Eeghen. In 1895, funded by a bequest from Sophia Adriana Lopez Suasso-de Bruijn and a gift from the van Eeghen family, it moved into its own purpose-built home on the Museumplein, designed by architect Adriaan Willem Weissman. On September 23, 2012, the museum reopened with a new wing designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, inaugurated by Queen Beatrix. Nicknamed "de Badkuip" (the bathtub) for its distinctive white form, the new wing doubled the museum's exhibition space to 8,000 square meters. The Stedelijk's collection spans modern and contemporary art, design, and photography, encompassing major 20th- and 21st-century movements such as De Stijl, the Bauhaus, CoBrA, and Pop Art.