Allard Pierson Museum
The Allard Pierson Museum is the University of Amsterdam’s archaeology museum, and its collections connect the city to ancient worlds along one continuous thread: from Mediterranean travel to university teaching. Named after Allard Pierson (1831–1896), the museum honours the university’s first professor of classical archaeology, who was invited in 1877 to a newly founded chair. Between 1877 and 1895, his passion for antiquity helped drive an assembling of plaster casts. What you’re stepping into now is also a story of institutional growth. After Jan Six’s collection entered the university’s orbit following his death in 1926, Pierson’s son Jan Lodewijk set up the Allard Pierson Foundation in 1932 to make the antiquities available for research and teaching. The museum officially opened on 12 November 1934 at Sarphatistraat 129–131, before outgrowing its space. …
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