Heritage associations go to court for Amsterdam Museum renovation
Heritage associations Heemschut and VVAB are going to court over the renovation of the Amsterdam Museum. The two parties are appealing against the ‘profound taste’ of the buildings in which the museum is housed.
There is always a lot to do around the renovation of the Amsterdam Museum. Last month, the municipality applied for the requested environmental permit, after the plans for the renovation had not yet been completed because too little account was taken of the history of the building.
At the same time, Heemschut and the Friends of the Amsterdam Inner City Association (VVAB) have also requested a temporary injunction to suspend demolition and construction work as long as the appeal is pending. “The municipality turned out not to be ready to wait for the outcome and had indicated that it wanted to start work in January,” said the two clubs.
“The building itself is item number 1 of their own collection, they treat it strangely”
“It is far too far-reaching an approach to the double inner city,” says Walther Schoonenberg, architectural historian and secretary of VVAB. “Far too much is being demolished, including the seventeenth-century hoods. The eventful appearance, which emerged during the previous renovation in 1975, is immediately reversed.” He refers, among other things, to the publicly accessible Schuttersgalerie, which has disappeared during the renovation.
The associations believe that the municipality allows itself things that others do not get permission to do. “The zoning plan is deviated from on fifteen grounds. If a private hotel had applied for this, a red line would have gone through it,” says Schoonenberg. “Actually, only the facades remain standing, and not even all facades want to disappear internal facades as well.”
The two heritage clubs do not understand that the Amsterdam Museum, which exhibits the history of the city, is proceeding with the rigorous renovation. Schoonenberg: “The building itself is item number 1 of their own collection, they treat it strangely.” Preliminary relief judge heard the case on January 16. When the profession is not clear.
The municipality has made a total of 56 million euros available for the renovation. Earlier this year, the museum expected that the work should be completed in 2025.
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