- KattenKabinet
The KattenKabinet ("Cat Cabinet") is an art museum in
Amsterdam devoted to works depictingcat s. The museum collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art byPablo Picasso ,Rembrandt ,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Corneille,Sal Meijer ,Théophile Steinlen , andJože Ciuha , among others.The museum is housed in a canalside building at Herengracht 497, in the grand "
Gouden Bocht " ("Golden Bend") of this canal. The house and the adjacent building at Herengracht 499 were built in 1667 for the patrician brothers Willem and Adriaen van Loon. Through the luck of the draw, Willem was given the house at number 497. Later, the house was inhabited by Amsterdam mayorJan Calkoen and Amsterdam pensionaryEngelbert van Berckel , among others.John Adams visited van Berckel at the house during his time as U.S. ambassador to the Dutch republic.In 1985, the building was restored, and in 1990 the museum was founded by Bob Meijer in memory of his red tomcat John Pierpont Morgan (named after the American banker
J. P. Morgan ).ources
* [http://www.kattenkabinet.nl KattenKabinet]
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