The gilded salons
Canal-side elite rooms with their original furniture.
Jean-Christophe BENOIST — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jacob Olie — Public domain · Cornelis Johannes Steenbergh — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Remi Mathis — CC BY-SA 3.0
Museum Van Loon is the classic Amsterdam canal house opened to visitors: an elegant mansion on the Keizersgracht (1672) lived in for generations by the Van Loon family — among the East India Company's founders — and preserved with its furniture, family portraits, back garden and coach house as elite canal life once was. It is the rare chance to enter one of the famous canal houses you see from outside all through your walk: gilded salons, a carved staircase, four centuries of family portraits, a servants' kitchen in the basement, and a symmetrical French garden ending in a neoclassical coach house — all kept with a home's intimacy, not a museum's severity. It explains wealthy Amsterdam's canal life as the great museums cannot — an elegant, quiet hour in the heart of the UNESCO-listed canal ring.
Canal-side elite rooms with their original furniture.
A symmetrical French garden ending in a neoclassical coach house.
Four centuries of a family that founded Amsterdam's trade.
Keizersgracht 672, 1017 Amsterdam
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