Chabot Museum
{{short description|Dutch art museum}}
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| established = {{Start date|1993}}
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| location = Museumpark 11
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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The Chabot Museum ({{IPA|nl|ɕaːˈbɔt myˈzeːjʏm}}) is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik (Henk) Chabot in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.{{Cite web |title=Chabot Museum |url=https://www.museum.nl/en/chabot-museum |access-date=11 October 2024 |website=museum.nl}} The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.{{Cite web |last=Info |first=Rotterdam |title=Chabot Museum Rotterdam |url=https://en.rotterdam.info/locations/chabot-museum-rotterdam-en/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Rotterdam Info |language=en}}
History
The museum opened in 1993.{{Cite news |date=1993-11-05 |title=Rotterdam krijgt Chabot-museum |url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ABCDDD:010826260:mpeg21:a0214 |access-date=2024-10-11 |work=Trouw}}
As of 2016 the Chabot Museum awards the Hendrik Chabot Prijs, an award for visual arts, which was originally created by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.{{Cite book |url=http://www.dutchheights.nl/prijzen/hendrik-chabotprijs |title=Hendrik Chabotprijs |language=nl}}
Building
The Chabot Museum is located at the Museumpark in Rotterdam Centrum, between the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.{{Cite web |title=WHITE GEM IN GREEN MUSEUMPARK |url=https://chabotmuseum.nl/white-gem-in-green-museumpark/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Chabot Museum Rotterdam |language=en-US}}
It is housed in a white villa designed in 1938 for C. H. Kraaijeveld in the style of New Objectivity. The architects were Gerrit Willem Baas, a former employee of Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, and Leonard Stokla, a former bureau chief of Kromhout.{{Cite web |title=The Villa |url=https://chabotmuseum.nl/the-villa/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Chabot Museum Rotterdam |language=en-US}}
The villa has been a rijksmonument (national heritage site) since 2000.{{in lang|nl}} [https://archive.today/20140812002403/http://monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl/php/main.php?cAction=show&cOBJnr=1006908 Monumentnummer: 513886 - (Chabot Museum)], Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Retrieved on 8 August 2014.
Collection
The museum is dedicated to painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot. The museum collection includes works from the 1920s from the Schortemeijer collection and 26 works from the Second World War from the private collection of Mrs. Toll-Breugem.{{Cite web |title=De collectie |url=https://chabotmuseum.nl/de-collectie/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Chabot Museum Rotterdam |language=en-US}} There are also works on loan, such as Chabot's most famous work Fire of Rotterdam, showing the result of the German bombings of the city in 1940.
Governance
The museum is managed as part of the Hendrik Chabot Foundation (in Dutch: Stichting Hendrik Chabot).{{Cite web |title=KVK producten bestellen |url=https://www.kvk.nl/bestellen/#/41133146 |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=KVK |language=nl}} The director is Jisc Biljsma.{{Cite web |last=Bentum |first=Noortje van |last2=B.V |first2=Museumtijdschrift |date=2023-02-16 |title=Het rauwe Rotterdam van Henk Chabot |url=https://museumtijdschrift.nl/artikelen/rubriek/het-rauwe-rotterdam/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Museumtijdschrift |language=nl-NL}} In 2023, there were 36,812 visitors, and a budget of 887,376 Euros.{{Cite web |title=Jaarverslag 23 |url=https://chabotmuseum.nl/over-het-chabot-museum/ |access-date=11 October 2024 |website=Museum Chabot |page=13}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
{{Rijksmonument|513886}}
- {{Official website|https://www.chabotmuseum.nl/english/}}
{{Culture in Rotterdam}}
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Category:Houses completed in 1938