Kröller-Müller Museum

Excellent collection that is worth a day trip if you are really into art. Crowds were much less than the Van Gough Museum when I went.
Recommendation: Do some research on logistics before you go if you don’t have a car. My significant other and I decided to walk (a long way through a nice forested/​rural pedestrian/​bike route) from the Ede train station, then grabbed the free white bikes at the Otterlo gate to get to the museum. We then left the park at the Arnhem gate with different white bikes and got a bus to the train in Arnhem

This is one of the best museums in the Netherlands. A hidden treasure.
It’s a great day out. You can see some nature first. You can choose to bike to the museum. Yu’ll be biking through the national park Veluwe where you can see forests and sand drifts and if you’re lucky some deer and other wildlife. If you’re not up for this, you can drive your car up to the museum. The museum itself is light and it has tons of Van Goghs (second largest collection, after the Van Gogh museum — which I personally find a lot more boring).
Other less famous highlights in the Netherlands: Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, towns (Giethoorn and Staphorst in the east/​north, Dordrecht and Delft in the west, Breda in south), and the Efteling, one of the best themeparks of the world (I like it better than Disney). In Belgium, visit Antwerps and Brussels, as well as Brugge and Gent.

The Kröller Müller museum is quite something. Now art is objective and of course I liked many of the pieces but not all of them but the couple who’s private collection this was, did an amazing thing in gifting it to the people, so for that, it has to be top marks.
The Van Gogh collection is vast! It actually is funny because you are walking around and looking at the paintings and I found myself saying in my head, oh… another Van Gogh! Like it is common place.
Interestingly enough was the introduction to the collection. Ms Müllers art teacher had a fondness for Van Gogh and recommended them to her. It is said that this collection had a lot to do with the painters popularity and publicity.
Worth going to see. It is also housed in the national park so stunning surroundings.
The park also has free bike hire so you can go to the museum them cycle to the café for lunch.

One of my favorite things to do in the Netherlands. The Museum is in a Hoge Veluwe National Park. You can drive to the park, but you can only ride bikes throughout the park. and they do provide free bikes as part of the cost of admission. The grounds are beautiful. The bike paths are well maintained. There is also a hunting lodge that is spectacular. The museum houses the largest private collection of Van Gogh’s and the second largest collection of Van Gogh’s. They also have a very cool sculpture garden. It’s best to visit on a sunny day, which is not always easy to get in The Netherlands, but if the day is nice, this place is absolutely worth seeing.

This is an incredible museum put together by a family to represent a lot of major changes in artwork. Tons of Van Goghs & his contemporaries as well as more modern painters & sculptors.
This is in Hoge Veluwe park. You can pay for entry to the museum at the park entry & bike in with the free bikes or pay to drive in.
Would love to go back here again.

If you don’t love the Kröller-​Müller, there’s something wrong with you.
Dutchwomen are really tall. The only Dutchwoman I know this not to be true of is my niece, but she’s only four, so she probably will be very tall. Dutchwomen will explore the Kröller-Müller’s awesome sculpture garden with you. OK, maybe not all Dutchwomen, but the ones with old-​fashioned German names will. I have proof, I have proof!
Famous paintings you’ve previously only scene in art-​history books. They’re much smaller than you think, as a rule, and that’s strange because paintings are usually much larger than you think, as a rule. But they’re all lined up for your perusing pleasure.
It’s smack dab in the middle of a national park! You can ride one of those white bicycles to it for free. For free!
Still not convinced? Wow, you’re a straight-​up cretin, but I have two words for you:
WILD BOARS.
Yes, wild boars. Come to the Kröller-​Müller, and you might spy some wild boars. And if you do, please take pictures of them and post them on Unilocal.And then thank me, John S., for cluing you in.

If you are in The Netherlands, this is a museum worth visiting. Its outside of Arnhem, and in the middle of a public park. You get there by driving, when you get to the entrance of the park you can either leave your car there and take a bike (they have hundreds for use by public) to the actual museum itself, or you can pay a little extra and drive into the park. Depending on the weather, both are nice options.
This museum has both indoor and outdoor areas. It is largely a sculpture garden walk, and a terrific way to spend a day, or a least a few hours. The sculptures are really terrific, they have a little bit of everything, so everyone will be happy there, and who does not like a «walk in the woods» so to speak.
Inside they have sculpture, but also some more traditional paintings. The recent show there was «cars» — they asked a number of artists to envision a car, and create it — using real cars. Very cool exhibit. Some of the cars were inside, others outside.
From some of the hotels in the area I think there are organized tours of the museum and park.

My boyfriend & I recently went on an «Art Tour» of sorts though Europe. We saw a lot of really magnificent museums and galleries, but this was by far one of my most favourite experiences of the entire trip! Set in the marvelous seclusion of a national park the Kröller-​Müller has the most wonderful, complex variety of art I’ve found on the continent.
I didn’t imagine I would pay much attention to anything once I visited those beautiful Van Gogh paintings, but little did I know what the Kröller-​Müller had in store for me. I now have three new favourite artists that I hadn’t known existed before and lots of close up photographs of Van Gogh’s work. Also the museum staff is very friendly and helpful (except for one woman in the gift shop, but I won’t hold that to the museum). There is also a wonderful sculpture garden in addition to the main facility.
If you want to really SEE Van Gogh or simply add a little something special to your journey, add this museum to your itinerary. You will get far more than you bargained for!

Großartige Sammlung — der Skulpturenpark nur mehr mit dem Lousiana in Humblebaek zu vergleichen. Ein Besuch zahlt sich jedenfalls aus. Ich habe diesen Tip von meiner Amsterdamer Gastgeberin erhalten, leider fand ich in Reiseführern nichts — schade, das Museum verdient ein besseres Marketing.

Ein Ausflug ins Kröller-​Müller-​Museum lohnt sich schon wegen der ausgestellten Van-​Gogh-​Werke, wie zum Beispiel «Caféterasse bei Nacht». Und dann liegt das Museum auch noch sehr schön im Park De Hoge Veluwe!

Ein bißchen was ist nachzutragen: Zunächst werden manche es wahrscheinlich wissenswert finden, daß dieses niederländische Provinzmuseum mit 278 Werken eine der weltgrößten Sammlungen von Vincent van Gogh-​Gemälden besitzt. Schon die allein sind einen Ausflug ins Naturerholungsgebiet De Hoge Velouwe wert! Darum gruppiert eine recht enggefaßte Sammlung klassisch-​moderner Kunst bis max. 1945. Dazu ein hinreißender Lukcas Cranach d. Ä.: Venus mit Cupido als Honigdieb und eine entzückende, coole Renaissance-​Venus (absolut sexy!) mit einem Armor, der so unglaublich debil und bescheuert aus dem Bild lugt, das man grinsen muß und in sich geht: So doof macht einen das Begehren nach dem anderen Geschlecht. Aaaach jaaaa äh: Wo war ich stehen geblieben? Ach ja: Die Hängung der Bilder in den relativ kleinen, niedrigen Ausstellungsräumen des Kröller-​Müller-​Museums ist geschmackvoll und ästhetisch überzeugend. Von außen sind die Gebäude von dezenter Scheußlichkeit: Man vermutet zunächst das Headquarter der Niederländischen Gebirgsmarine vor sich zu haben!
Versöhnt wird man durch den wunderschönen Park um das Museum: Hier hat man auf 21 Hektar einen sehr sehenswerten Skulpturenpark angelegt.
Museum und Park sollte man, wenn man in der Nähe, sprich: in NRW wohnt, ruhig mal einplanen. Einen Punkt Abzug bringt die sprichwörtliche Geschäftstüchtigkeit unserer westlichen Nachbarn: Zu dritt (der kraska, die Gattin und unser Skoda-​Autochen, das extra kostete, und zwar happig) kamen wir auf rund 30 EUR Eintritt! Trotz Presseausweis!
Na gut. Vincent v. G. hat sein halbes Ohr geopfert. Da wollen wir nicht knauserig sein

Wo gibt es den so was! Ein Museum mit Vorspiel! unerhört! tststs macht es da im Feuilleton.
Um das volle Erlebnis zu genießen, lässt man den Wagen am besten an der einfahrt zum Museum stehen & leiht sich dort flugs ein Fahrrad. (Bitte? gemurmel unter den Kulturaufsehern)
Dann radelt man nach belieben die kurze oder mittlere oder lange Strecke durch den Nationalpark De Hoge Veluwe 5.500 Hektar urwüchsige Natur
Durch heiden und wälder gelangt man zum Museum oder zum daneben liegenden Skulpturgarten (allein auch 25hektar groß). Je nach Wetterlage kann man dann entscheiden was man sehen möchte & hat bei der Rückradellei zeit zum nach sinnieren über das Gesehene.
Was es zu sehen gibt? Wechselnde Ausstellungen zu Themen der klassischen Moderne & der zeitgenössischen Kunst eingebettet in Grün.