Cat Cabinet
The KattenKabinet, or the Cat Cabinet, turns a single theme—cats in art and culture—into a serious museum experience. It is housed at Herengracht 497 in Amsterdam’s Gouden Bocht, the “Golden Bend” of the Herengracht canal, and it shares the canal-house setting that helped this area earn UNESCO World Heritage status in 2010 as part of the Seventeenth-century canal ring. The building itself dates to 1667, originally constructed for the patrician brothers Willem and Adriaen van Loon; later, the house at 497 was owned by figures including Amsterdam mayor Jan Calkoen and the pensionary Engelbert François van Berckel. John Adams visited Van Berckel here during his U.S. ambassadorship. In 1985 the buildings were restored, and in 1990 Bob Meijer founded the museum in memory of his red tomcat, John Pierpont Morgan. …
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