Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen

Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen was an art museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that operated from 1991 to 2015 in a late-17th-century patrician canal house, the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis. Founded as a museum dedicated to art and historic interiors, it gained recognition for its carefully preserved period rooms, its collection of historic pianos, and its participation in Amsterdam's Open Garden Days. After leaving its original premises, the museum relocated multiple times: first to Zutphen in 2017, then to the country estate Kolthoorn House in Heerde, with a modest additional venue at the Posthoornkerk in Amsterdam.

The museum opened in 1991 in the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis on Herengracht 518, with its entrance in the former coach house at Keizersgracht 633. The building had been acquired and restored by the Buisman family, who made the coach house accessible to the public as a museum. The institution's first exhibition, held in 1991, featured the work of Antoine Ignace Melling. By the end of 2015, the museum was forced to leave its Amsterdam premises when the Buisman family sold the property to a real estate developer. In spring 2017, the museum reopened as Geelvinck Muziek Museum in the historic mansion De Wildeman in Zutphen, a building previously occupied by Museum Henriëtte Polak. This proved short-lived, and by the end of 2019 the museum had closed in Zutphen as well. It subsequently moved to Kolthoorn House in Heerde. Since 2012, the museum has also maintained a modest venue in the Posthoornkerk in Amsterdam, where its collection of historic pianos can be viewed by appointment.

The museum's collections and programming centered on three main areas: historic interiors and decorative arts, historic pianos and keyboard instruments, and art exhibitions. The historic interiors at the Herengracht site comprised four period rooms furnished in distinct styles ranging from Louis XV and Louis XVI to Rococo and neoclassical. The museum also organized concerts on historic fortepianos, including a Broadwood square piano, a program that continued after the move in other historic houses and castles. The collection of historic pianos became a particular focus, leading to the museum's later identity as Geelvinck Muziek Museum.

The four historic rooms on the main floor of the former Herengracht building contained significant decorative art objects. The Blue Room, in Louis XVI or neoclassical style, featured five wallpaper panels painted around 1788 by Egbert van Drielst, romantic landscapes influenced by Meindert Hobbema and Jacob van Ruisdael, with two porcelain jars from the factory of Joannes de Mol on the chimney. The Red Room, in Louis XV or neo-Rococo style, held six 17th-century paintings: a Flemish fantasy landscape by Gillis d'Hondecoeter depicting Christ healing the blind; a flower still life by Daniel Seghers; a still life by Pieter de Ring; a seascape by Hans Goderis; a winterscape by Antonie van Stralen; and a piece of Kraak porcelain on the table. The hall contained a Brussels tapestry from around 1600 depicting Cyrus the Great and Croesus after Herodotus, with a cartoon designed by Michiel Coxcie. The Chinese Room displayed eight Rococo wallpaper panels on canvas with chinoiserie motifs, produced between 1765 and 1775 in the cuir de Cordoue manufacture of Cornelis 't Kindt in Brussels, with possible influences from Jean-Baptiste Pillement; its table in scagliola technique had belonged to Frederick William III of Prussia. The library ceiling, in neoclassical style resembling the work of Scottish architect Robert Adam, was based on the Domus Aurea in Rome and the palace of Diocletian in Split.

The Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis was built in 1687 for Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693) and Sara Hinlopen (1660-1749), members of two wealthy Amsterdam regent families whose fortunes derived from trade with Spain, Africa, Suriname, the West Indies, and the Dutch East India Company. The double-width canal house on Herengracht 518 occupied two parcels: a residential section on the right and a commercial section on the left. In 1687, Geelvinch purchased a rear parcel extending to Keizersgracht, allowing for garden expansion and the construction of a coach house and stables at what became Keizersgracht 633. The house was renovated around 1749, and in 1813 its facade was altered in Empire style, removing the attic and dormer story. The garden was largely destroyed in the 1953 storm disaster and was redesigned in 1990 by landscape architect Robert Broekema, creating three garden rooms: a Dutch bulb garden, an English landscape garden, and a French baroque garden with a large classical pond. The building was sold in 2015 and resold in 2016 for 15 million euros; by 2019 it housed the embassy of the Seychelles.

During its Amsterdam period, the museum was located near Rembrandtplein and the Amstel, in the eastern end of the Gouden Bocht bend of the Herengracht. The entrance was at Keizersgracht 633, through the former coach house, leading to the garden and the main house. The museum participated in the annual Open Garden Days in June. After 2015, public access shifted to the museum's subsequent locations: De Wildeman in Zutphen (2017-2019), Kolthoorn House in Heerde (current), and the Posthoornkerk in Amsterdam, where the historic piano collection remains available for viewing by appointment. The original Herengracht building is no longer open to the public.