Museum van Bommel van Dam

Museum van Bommel van Dam is a Dutch museum of modern-day art in Venlo inside the southeast Netherlands. The museum belongs to the German/Dutch cooperation Crossart, a partnership among 7 German museums in Westfalen and 4 Dutch museums in Gelderland and Limburg. Exhibitions are held of artwork or drawings, sculpture or pictures. The museum changed into based by means of the couple Maarten and Reina van Bommel-van Dam, who began collecting cutting-edge artwork after the Second World War. Maarten van Bommel become a banker and artlover. In 1969, the residence in Amsterdam, belonging to the couple became too small.

For this reason they determined to donate the whole collection of approximately 1,2 hundred art work, drawings, etchings and lithographs to the Municipality of Venlo, under one situation, which consisted of the introduction of a museum in a constructing connected to a private residence, in which the couple ought to stay. This museum named after them turned into opened in 1971. It suggests the artworks that pleased them and that they did now not try to pay attention in one course or the alternative. Typical for the collection is the personal liking of an item or an hobby in its material, a sure coloring or in its provenance.