Hermitage Amsterdam is nu H’ART Museum. Je wordt nu doorgestuurd naar de website van H’ART Museum.
Hermitage Amsterdam is now H’ART Museum. You will now be redirected to the H’ART Museum website.
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Eva Bloem

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About the Museum
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About the Museum
About H'ART Museum

Brief history

H’ART Museum is a global art museum where famous works of art and stories from around the world are brought together in one-of-a-kind exhibitions. Our exhibitions are always temporarily on show but will stay with you forever. The museum is located in a historical landmark, at the heart of the Dutch capital. A cultural oasis - with a unique indoor garden and a bustling Grand Café - where constantly many interesting things are going on, from concerts, lectures and movie nights to art education for children and young adults.   

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This museum,  has always housed some of the most unique and famous art, from antiquity to present day. Connecting the art world in new ways and bringing it to Amsterdam for everyone to enjoy. H’ART Museum is a global art museum together with its world-renowned museum partners: The British Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC), which brings art, culture and stories together as never before. We want to inspire people through powerful, relevant, and heartfelt art. 

 We independently curate via this partnership to exhibit art collections and shows that span borders, time, and relevant cultural conversations all for people to experience powerful art that lives on in their hearts long after they’ve left us. 

This is because we firmly believe that Great Art Sparks Hearts.


Historically the building began as a Diaconie Oude Vrouwen Huys in 1683, a sanctuary for displaced older city ladies. In 1817 places also were made available for men. Until the 20th Century, the church hall in the home was the second largest in the city and regularly used for worship. Winston Churchill even set foot in the building alongside the Amstel River, renamed the ‘Amstelhof’ in 1953. 

A major renovation took place in the 1970s, and it was only in 2007 that the last residents were transferred to a more appropriate home. Ernst Veen, at the time director of De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam, came up with the idea of giving the Amstelhof a new purpose, that of a museum. Loans from the treasury of the St Petersburg Hermitage, a museum in Russia, made it possible to open as the Hermitage Amsterdam in a grand opening in 2009. 

More than 5 million visitors have walked through our doors, visiting 30 varied and inspirational exhibitions. We always welcome a mixture of both international and local visitors. 


 Partners and partnerships    

  • Our founding partner is the VriendenLoterij.  
  • We sometimes have other museum partners, Dutch and international, varying with the exhibitions we are displaying.
  •  We have funding and development partners that sponsor and help us with either financial means or expertise, current funding partners are ABN AMRO, Heineken and ELJA Foundation.  
  • From Summer 2024 we will begin to partner for exhibitions with our new world-famous museum collective, remaining independent. 

 Artistic development and H’ART Museum Education    

We take talent development of young artists very seriously, with what was Hermitage for Children, and is now known as H’ART Museum Education and Talent. We continuously offer art education through which every child can discover their artistic talent in new ways, sparking their hearts too.

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