Donation from Verwey Museum Haarlem to the North Holland Archives

Verwey Museum Haarlem has made a special donation to the North Holland Archives. A wide range of objects, varying from fashion drawings to photo albums, photos, folders and posters of famous Haarlemse companies such as Droste, is now included in the archive. Also ownership deeds from the 17th and 18th centuries are part of the donation.

In addition to collecting objects, museums sometimes remove objects from their collection. In the case of the Verwey Museum Haarlem many of these 'decollected' objects were loaned to the North Holland Archives. In the summer of 2024, this loan was converted into a donation.

Save for the future

The choice to donate the objects is twofold. Firstly, the donation makes the documents more searchable for third parties, which contributes to the accessibility of the collection. Secondly, the North Holland Archives, thanks to their specialized climatological conditions, can better preserve the objects for the future.

The donated objects mainly date from the 19th and 20th centuries and offer a fascinating insight into the collection of the Verwey Museum Foundation HaarlemA special object in the collection is, for example, a fashion drawing by Frans Piët, known as a cartoonist of Sjors and SjimmieThe drawing, which shows the 'Sultane Dior', is a green velvet garment with a light blue silk skirt and gold decoration. This drawing could possibly have been inspired by the lessons that Piët followed at the Vrije Academie in Paris in the 30s.

More information about the donation and the collection can be found on the website of the North Holland Archives: www.noord-hollandsarchief.nl.