Piet Oudolf’s Garden
at Museum Voorlinden
in Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden
connects people, art, nature and architecture
Voorlinden Estate has a long history that dates back to Roman times. The name Voorlinden originated in 1584. During the seventeenth century various country estates emerged around The Hague, one of which was Voorlinden.
Voorlinden is a private museum for modern and contemporary art at a magnificent estate in the dunes at Wassenaar, a stone’s throw from The Hague.
Businessman and art collector Joop van Caldenborgh realised his dream here in 2016: a museum of international allure that houses his renowned collection. The attractive white building offers a space for Van Caldenborgh’s rich and surprising collection, permanent works of art made especially for the museum and temporary exhibitions.
Every aspect of Museum Voorlinden has been designed to enhance art. The basic oblong shape consists of variegated dune sand-coloured natural stones and transparent glass walls, which enhances the experience of nature inside the building. An elegant, white-steel colonnade bears the ingenious roof structure. The overall threefold division of the interior matches the museum program: collection presentations, changing exhibitions and permanent in-situ works.
Museum Voorlinden collects, presents, keeps, manages, conserves, restores and publishes modern and contemporary art, both on its own premises and elsewhere. At museum Voorlinden, modern and contemporary art take on new meaning for a broad-based national and international audience. The museum envisages to be a meeting place where people like to sojourn. Voorlinden wants to be an oasis of tranquility in the hectic city where people can go marvel and be surprised. The total experience of art, nature and architecture is key in the way of presenting and approaching visitors.
Garden of Museum Voorlinden
At the start of the nineteenth century, father J.D. Zocher (1791-1870) and son (1820-1915) designed a park here in landscape style. When Voorlinden came into the hands of Esquire Ir. Hugo Loudon, he commissioned British architect R.J. Johnston to build the current country house along the lines of the stately country house of his English wife.
In the same period, landscape architect Leonard Springer (1855-1940) redesigned the landscape and created new lines of sight. The combination of indigenous and exotic tree species was his work.
For the opening of Museum Voorlinden, famouse Dutch landscape and garden architect Piet Oudolf was invited to design the area around the new building. This final intervention resulted in an example of early 19th-century, 20th-century and 21st-century landscapes. The woods, dune meadow and dune areas are freely accessible for walking on the footpaths.
He created a garden that blooms in three seasons and remains worth seeing all year round. It is a work of art with over sixty species of perennials and ornamental grasses that is never finished, always evolving and which the Voorlinden gardeners keep up daily.
The sea of flowers is surrounded by lawns and grass hills, which emphasize the interplay between the various parterres. The gardens are visible from inside the museum as well as outside: a pleasant interplay between art, architecture and nature.
Rijnbeek Perennials is proud to be the main supplier of perennials for this magnificent creation, working close with museum Voorlinden since the very begin of the planting in 2016 till now days.
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