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Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Coordinates: 52°22′04″N 4°53′06″E / 52.36764°N 4.88487°E / 52.36764; 4.88487
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Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is located in Amsterdam
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Location within the city center of Amsterdam
Established1999
LocationKeizersgracht 401
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates52°22′04″N 4°53′06″E / 52.36764°N 4.88487°E / 52.36764; 4.88487
Typephotography museum
Visitors37,241 (2014)[1]
DirectorNanda van den Berg[2]
CuratorNanda van den Berg
Public transit accesstram 2 and 12 (Keizersgracht) metro 52 (Rokin) bus (Elandsgracht)
Websitehttp://www.huismarseille.nl/en/

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is the oldest photography museum in Amsterdam, opened in 1999. Huis Marseille was the first photography museum in the Netherlands when it opened in 1999; the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, the Fotomuseum Den Haag in The Hague, and FOAM in a nearby building have opened since.[3] The museum is housed in a residence built around 1665 for a French merchant, and contains 13 exhibition spaces and a restored room in Louis XIV style; the building was restored and the museum extended into the adjacent building in 2007–2013.[4][5]

Exhibitions generally use the entire space and have mostly featured documentary photography.[3] They have included Rob Hornstra's Sochi Project,[3] photographs of Kyoto by Jacqueline Hassink,[4] Sarkis' Ring Portraits,[6] work by Juul Kraijer,[7] and various photographers' works portraying dance.[8][9]

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The museum Huis Marseille takes its name from the building in which it is housed. This monumental residence was built around 1665 for the French merchant Isaac Focquier. To its classicist facade Focquier added a stone tablet depicting a map of the French seaport Marseille. Three hundred years later, the original seventeenth-century layout of the house—consisting of a 'front' segment, a courtyard, a 'back' segment and garden—is still largely intact.[10]

In September 2013, the museum was expanded to include the neighboring building at Keizersgracht 399, providing it with a total of fourteen exhibition spaces. In addition, the museum has a photography library and a garden with a garden house.

Exhibitions

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Some of the exhibitions that have taken place at Huis Marseille:[11]

References

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  1. ^ [1], Toeristiche Barometer, 2015. Retrieved on 1 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Info". Huis Marseille. Huis Marseille. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Edo Dijksterhuis, "How Many Photography Museums Can a Country Have?", ArtSlant, April 11, 2014.
  4. ^ a b David Rosenberg, "Jacqueline Hassink: View, Kyoto": "Our Seven Favorite Photography Shows From 2014", David Rosenberg and Jordan G. Teicher, Behold photography blog, Slate, December 26, 2014.
  5. ^ ANP, "Fotografiemuseum Huis Marseille vernieuwd", De Volkskrant, September 6, 2013 (in Dutch)
  6. ^ Julia Halperin, "Turkey picks Sarkis for 2015 Venice Biennale", The Art Newspaper, August 5, 2014.
  7. ^ Gemma Padley, "Wapping Project Bankside re-opens in Mayfair", British Journal of Photography, September 17, 2014.
  8. ^ "'Luz danzante', cuando las fotos congelan la emoción del baile", 20 minutos, December 17, 2014 (in Spanish)
  9. ^ Raymond Harper, "Huis Marseille in teken van de dans", Fotografieblog.nl, November 28, 2014 (in Dutch)
  10. ^ Huis Marseille,"Information about the house", May 19th, 2016
  11. ^ "Tentoonstellingen Archief". Huis Marseille. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
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