Kroller-Muller Museum...

I was excited to finally get to go to the infamous Kroller-Muller Museum, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park. It was very complicated to get to by public transport, so we’d never been. We were clearly not the only ones that thought it was a good idea to get some culture on Christmas Day as it was surprisingly busy. 

The museum was founded in 1938 by an art collector within the extensive grounds of her and her husband’s former estate, which is now the national park. First we visited the modern sculpture garden, one of Europe’s largest.

 

The museum has the second-largest collection of Van Gogh’s outside of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, including Terrace of a Café at Night (Place du Forum), a nocturnal painting from 1888 without the use of black paint.

The museum café was very good and even had a vegan option for Veronica.

By far the strangest installation we saw was Inopportune: Stage Two by Cai Guo-Qiang featuring nine replica tigers pierced by dozens of arrows. They are suspended in their moment of death as a commentary on the mass extermination of entire species in the midst of the ambivalence of humans.

 They were so lifelike that it was truly eerie.

This speaks for itself.