Kröller-Müller Museum, Art museum in Ede, Netherlands.
The Kröller-Müller Museum is an art museum in Ede, Netherlands, displaying modern art across several galleries within a modernist building complex. The exhibition rooms guide through different periods of nineteenth and twentieth century painting and sculpture.
Helene Kröller-Müller began collecting in 1908 with Paul Gabriël's painting Hij komt van ver. In 1935 she donated the collection to the Dutch state, and the museum designed by Henry van de Velde opened in Otterlo on 13 July 1938. The planned Groote Museum was never built; the temporary building became permanent.
The museum holds the second-largest Van Gogh collection after the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, including Café Terrace at Night and Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate). Helene Kröller-Müller, advised by H.P. Bremmer, was among the first to recognize his talent and collected his works from 1908 onward.
Access happens through the Hoge Veluwe National Park entrance, where visitors can borrow white bicycles to explore both the building and the surroundings. The sculpture garden covers a large area and requires enough time for walking.
The sculpture garden spans twenty-five hectares and presents over one hundred sixty sculptures integrated into the forest landscape. The white bicycles visitors can use for free date back to the early years of the park and have become a recognizable feature.
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