Museum Bredius, Art museum at Lange Vijverberg, The Hague, Netherlands
Museum Bredius is an art museum housed in an 18th-century mansion across from the Mauritshuis on the Hofvijver waterfront. The house displays roughly 200 paintings and drawings spread across several small rooms that preserve the original living setting.
Abraham Bredius, a prominent art scholar and collector, built this collection starting in 1855 and bequeathed it as a public museum. After his death in 1946, his residence and collection were preserved as a legacy of art history.
The museum is named after the collector Abraham Bredius who assembled these works. The rooms keep the feeling of a private art home, with paintings hung closely together in historical frames as they were displayed in past centuries.
The museum is housed in a residential building with narrow staircases and small rooms, so wheelchair access is limited. A full visit is typically short to moderate in length, making it ideal for an afternoon stop alongside nearby attractions.
The museum holds the only Dutch perspective box, an optical viewing device from earlier centuries. Here also hangs the sole known work by Italian Baroque painter Matthias Stomer anywhere in the Netherlands.
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