This is country house Oud-Amelisweerd in Bunnik, once a summer residence for the rich. This building was built around 1770 and was for one year (1808-1809) also owned by Louis Napoleon, king of Holland. In 1951 the country house was sold to the municipality of Utrecht. The country house was privately occupied until 1989, after which it fell under the management of the Centraal Museum until 2012. Recently the MOA, the Museum Oud-Amelisweerd, was located here for a short time. Now the pop-up museum Oud-Amelisweerd is open, with objects from the depots of the Utrecht castle museums, together with modern art in changing exhibitions.
Landhuis Oud-Amelisweerd is a national monument.
This photo belongs to the series Modern History and is therefore in black and white.
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