Park & nature

Museum Square

📍 Amsterdam, Amsterdam🏗 1903-01-01🖊 Pierre Cuypers

Museum Square, or Museumplein, was planned as the civic forecourt for three cultural anchors: the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum, with the Concertgebouw also forming part of the same arts corridor. Before it became a public space, the site was an area of marshy meadows and even a wax candle factory, and it was the venue for the International Colonial and Export Exhibition in 1883. Construction of the museum-landscape began after the Rijksmuseum was completed in 1885, using a street plan tied to Pierre Cuypers, the Rijksmuseum’s celebrated architect—so the square was designed to grow out of the museum itself. In 1999, it was reconstructed to a design by the Swedish/Danish landscape architect Sven-Ingvar Andersson, adding underground parking and an underground supermarket, and allowing the central pond to switch, in winter, into an artificial ice-skating setting. …
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