The Kröller-Müller Museum

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Kröller-Müller Museum

Entrance of the museum in 2008
Location in Gelderland in the Netherlands
Established	13 July 1938[1]
Location	Houtkampweg 6[2] Otterlo, Netherlands
Coordinates	52°05′44″N 5°49′01″ECoordinates: 52°05′44″N 5°49′01″E
Type	Art museum National museum
Visitors	380,000 (2015 est.)[3]
Director	Lisette Pelsers[4]
Website	krollermuller.nl

The Kröller-Müller Museum (Dutch pronunciation: [krɵlərˈmylər myˌzeːjɵm]) is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum was founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller and opened in 1938. It has the second-largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, after the Van Gogh Museum. The museum had 380,000 visitors in 2015.

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• 1History
• 2Collection
• 3Sculpture garden
• 4Selected collection highlights
• 5Administration
• 6References
• 7Further reading
• 8External links
  

Sculpture garden[edit]

The Kröller-Müller Museum is also famous for its large sculpture garden, within the forest park, of more than 75 acres (300,000 m²) and one of the largest in Europe, with a fine collection of modern and contemporary sculptures. The garden reflects Helene Kröller-Müller's conception of a symbiosis between art, architecture and nature.^[5] The collection includes works by Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, Mark di Suvero, Lucio Fontana, Claes Oldenburg, Fritz Wotruba, Joep van Lieshout and many more.