Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen

Museum Geelvinck was situated from its opening 1991 till the end of 2015 in a canal-side mansion, the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This patrician mansion, close to the Rembrandtplein, was built for Albert Geelvinck (1647–1693) and Sara Hinlopen (1660–1749), then in an attractive and new laid-out section of the city towards the Amstel. In the year 1687 the couple moved into this double wide canal house on the Herengracht 518, with storage rooms in the cellar, under the attic and in the warehouse on the Keizersgracht 633, now the museum entrance. The canal mansion 'Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis' is now closed for the public, because the museum (including. History Albert Geelvinck came from the upper class Geelvinck family, who had acquired their wealth through merchant shipping to Spain, Africa, Suriname and the West Indies. Sara Hinlopen came from a family of originally Flemish cloth merchants, private investors and in an early stage involved in the governing the city and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Both families belonged to the regents of Amsterdam. The republican Geelvincks delivered five burgomasters (mayors) in the 17th and 18th century. They too served in the Admiralty of Amsterdam , Dutch West India Company (WIC) or the Society.