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 (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 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 Top 100 Dutch heritage sites is a list of rijksmonuments in the Netherlands, established in 1990 by the Department for Conservation ( Monumentenzorg, today the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed). The Top 100 was a selection of historical m ...

. The Trips also commissioned

Ferdinand Bol Ferdinand Bol (24 June 1616 – 24 August 1680) was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-port ...

to paint '' Portrait of the Trip Sisters'' and '' Portrait of Johanna de Geer and her Children as Charity'', 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.

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 Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French cl ...

(with the predicate "Koninklijk", meaning Royal). The other half was in use by the art dealer

Cornelis Sebille Roos Cornelis Sebille Roos or Cornelis Roos (1754 – 1820) was a Dutch art dealer and inspector of the Nationale Konst-Gallery collection in Huis ten Bosch during the years 1799-1801 Roos was born 10 January 1754 in Amsterdam and baptized six days lat ...

. After 1815, when the Netherlands were ruled by King Willem I, 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. The painting called the Nightwatch, by Rembrandt hung here until 1885 when it moved to the new Rijksmuseum. 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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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