Marius van Dokkum Museum - Harderwijk

A museum where people laugh out loud, where complete strangers start conversations with each other in front of a painting and where children enjoy art just as much as adults. That is unique. That is the Marius van Dokkum Museum. The only registered museum in the Netherlands dedicated to a living artist.

In 2015 Van Dokkum exhibited at the Stadsmuseum in Harderwijk. The exhibition was an enormous success. The large number of visitors and enthusiastic reactions showed that the public had fallen for the work of Marius van Dokkum. And Marius in turn fell for the city of Harderwijk, with its beautiful squares, streets and monuments. He felt so at home that he and the Stadsmuseum started looking for a suitable location where his work could be shown permanently.

His eye fell on one of the most beautiful buildings in Harderwijk, the former Dissection Room of the University of Harderwijk. Here professors once dissected bodies in front of their students during the so called anatomical lessons. After a thorough renovation this remarkable historic location received a new and unique purpose: a museum dedicated to the work of a living artist.