H'ART Museum
H’ART Museum is housed on the Amstel’s east bank in a building with a long memory: the former Amstelhof, a classical-style structure built in 1681. It opened in 1682 as the Diaconie Oude Vrouwen Huys, a retirement home for elderly women, and from 1817 it also took in elderly men—becoming the Diaconie Oude Vrouwen- en Mannenhuis. The building later took the name Amstelhof in 1953, and—after renovations and added wings for residents—its last inhabitants left in 2007. When the museum project began, much of the original interior had already been altered, but the renovation works still came with a price tag of €40 million, reshaping walls and spaces for contemporary exhibitions. The museum opened on 20 June 2009, opened by Dutch Queen Beatrix and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, and it welcomed visitors the next day. …
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