Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Huis Marseille, the Museum voor Fotografie, opened in 1999 and is remembered as the first Dutch museum devoted exclusively to photography as an art form. It does something unusual: instead of a bare “white cube,” it exhibits photographs in two 17th-century canal houses—monumental buildings dating from 1665 on the Keizersgracht. Those houses carry the story of their first owner. Around 1665, a French merchant named Isaac Focquier built the monumental canal house, and on its classical façade he placed a stone showing the layout of the port city of Marseille. His ship outfitting brought him to Amsterdam and helped make him wealthy, and he served for years in Amsterdam’s College van Commercie, linking his commercial experience to city trade decisions. The museum preserved interiors such as ceiling paintings, stucco work, marble finishes, and a Louis XIV-style room with a red interior. …
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