The double mansion on Herengracht House Willet-Holthuysen has many rooms with historic interiors. There are salons in Neo-Louis XVI style and the garden is designed as a symmetrical French style garden. The house takes its name from the couple who lived here at the end of the 19th century: Abraham Willet and Louisa Holthuysen. After the couple’s death in 1895, they donated the house and collection to the city Amsterdam, with the intention that it would become a museum.
Baroque garden
The early eighteenth-century garden designs of the French architect Daniël Marot have served as a source of inspiration for the current garden. The graceful symmetrical patterns and trimmed hedges and trees refer to the baroque gardens of canal houses and country estates. Today it is one of the few formal gardens in the center of Amsterdam.
Historic tulips
In the historic garden you find single, double and feathered tulips, plain, flamed and striped tulips, single, double and spray daffodils, orange and yellow imperial crowns, grape hyacinths and hyacinths. The flowering period runs from late March to mid-May. But this year especially the historic tulips from the time of the couple Willet-Holthuysen stand out: ‘Duc van Tol Scarlet’ (1850) red, ‘Julia Farnese’ (1853) red-white flamed, ‘Clara Butt’ (1889) pink, ‘Greuze’ (1891) purple with red and ‘Prinses Elisabeth’ (1898) pink.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm,
Saturday and Sunday from 11 am. to 5 pm.