Embassy of the Free Mind
The Embassy of the Free Mind is a museum and library housed in the 17th-century canal house Huis met de Hoofden on Keizersgracht 123, a building built in 1622 by Hendrick de Keyser. Its façade is marked by six “heads” depicting the Roman gods Apollo, Ceres, Mercury, Minerva, Bacchus, and Diana, tying the site’s artistic language to classical ideas of knowledge and order. What you’re really walking into, though, is a story about European free thinking across two millennia. The museum takes its inspiration from the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica—the Ritman Library—an Amsterdam research library that began in 1958 when businessman Joost Ritman started it as a private collection. In 1984, the library opened to the general public and later received Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) status in 2009. …
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