Centraal Museum
The Lute Player, Dirck van Baburen
Young man with jew's harp, Dirck van Baburen
The Procuress, Gerard van Honthorst
Granida and Daifilo, Gerard van Honthorst
Margareta Maria de Roodere and Her Parents, Gerard van Honthorst
The dapple-grey, Roelant Savery
Flower Still Life with Two Lizards, Roelant Savery
Bouquet, Roelant Savery
Lochorst Triptych, Jan van Scorel
Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, Jan van Scorel
The fruit and vegetable seller, Joachim Wtewael
The kitchen maid, Joachim Wtewael
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The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wtewael is by a long way the largest anywhere in the world. Other highlights are many significant paintings by the Utrecht Caravaggisti, such as Gerard van Honthorst and Hendrick ter Brugghen. Both of them travelled to Rome in the early 17th century to study the works of the Italian master Caravaggio. In the previous generation, as well as Wtewael, Abraham Bloemaert and the portraitist Paulus Moreelse were the most significant Utrecht painters, with Jan van Scorel still earlier.
History
Initially, the collection - exhibited on the top floor of the Utrecht townhall - was limited to art related to the city of Utrecht. In 1921 the collection merged with various private collections in the new 'centralised museum' (hence the name 'Centraal museum', centraal being the Dutch word for central) located in the former medieval monastery at the Nicolaaskerkhof. Currently, the collection comprises pre-1850 art, modern art, applied art, fashion and the city history of Utrecht.
Since 2006, the museum also runs the dick bruna huis (yes, no caps), a museum across the street dedicated to Dick Bruna and his rabbit character Miffy.[1]
It also runs the Rietveld Schröder House, a famous Modernist house built in 1924 by the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder[2] and her three children, which is now owned by the museum and open to the public (prebooking usually needed).
Highlights
Amongst the highlights of the museum is the one-thousand-year-old 'Utrecht Ship'. The ship is part of the collection 'Stadsgeschiedenis'. The ship was found in 1930 near the Van Hoornekade in Utrecht and was put in the cellar of the 16th-century part of the museum building.
Notes
Museum page
"Rietveld Schröder huis (rijksmonument #18329)". Monumentenregister (in Dutch). Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
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