The Trippenhuis is a neoclassical canal mansion in the centre of Amsterdam. It was built in 1660–1662 for the wealthy Amsterdam weapons traders Louis and Hendrick Trip. Many references to weaponry can be seen on its facade. Since 1887 it has been the seat of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

(KNAW).

History

The building was designed by the architect Justus Vingboons.Rijksmonument report It is a double house; two large homes built behind one single seven-window-wide facade for the sons Louis and Hendrick of

Jacob Trip Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Isla ...

and Margaretha de Geer. It is the largest facade from the time period in Amsterdam, and is on the list of top 100 Dutch heritage sites. The Trips also commissioned Ferdinand Bol to paint ''

Portrait of the Trip Sisters ''Portrait of the Trip Sisters'', also known as ''Portrait of Margarita Trip as Minerva Teaching Her Sister Anna Maria Trip'', is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch artist Ferdinand Bol, created in 1663. It is in the collection of the Rijksmuse ...

'' and ''

Portrait of Johanna de Geer and her Children as Charity ''Portrait of Johanna de Geer and her Children as Charity'' or ''Portrait of Johanna de Geer and her Two Children Cecilia and Laurens Trip as Caritas'' is a c. 1664 oil on canvas painting by Ferdinand Bol, now in the collection of the Rijksmuse ...

'', which both originally hung in the building. In 1730 the house on the right was remodelled for Elisabeth van Loon, but the left house still has many of its original details, including ceiling decorations by

Nicolaes de Helt Stockade Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614–1669), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken, Joost van den Vondel made a poem about him. Stockade served as a court painter to King Louis XIII between 1637 and 1645. According to t ...

Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schoone Kunsten

Gerrit Lamberts - Trippenhuis - Stadsarchief Amsterdam

In 1812 the ''Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten'' moved there, the origin of the KNAW founded in 1808 by Louis Bonaparte (with the predicate "Koninklijk", meaning Royal). The other half was in use by the art dealer Cornelis Sebille Roos. After 1815, when the Netherlands were ruled by

King Willem I William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange, the King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who we ...

, the two buildings were reunited under the name ''Koninklijk-Nederlandsch Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten'' and a national museum was opened in the former art dealership in 1817 as a follow-up to the

Prince William V Gallery The Prince William V Gallery is an art gallery on the Buitenhof in The Hague that currently shares an entrance with the Gevangenpoort museum. It is a recreation of the original gallery ''Galerij Prins Willem V'', once founded there by William V ...

. It became quickly too small and the modern paintings were sent to the Museum van Levende Meesters located in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

. The painting called the Nightwatch, by Rembrandt hung here until 1885 when it moved to the new

Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...

. In 1851 the society was disbanded and re-established as the ''Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen'', which inherited the archives of the earlier societies with the prize winners and membership details of the four ''classes'' along the French model originally created by Louis Napoleon: Mathematics and Physics, Dutch literature and history, Ancient and Eastern Literature, History and the fine arts. Since 1938 the society has been called ''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'', though the Royal predicate was temporarily dropped during World War II. In 2020 the renovated Trippenhuis won the Amsterdam Architecture Prize.

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Trippenhuis
on the KNAW website 17th century in Amsterdam Museums in Amsterdam Rijksmonuments in Amsterdam Houses completed in 1662 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 1662 establishments in the Dutch Republic