On one of the last days of our stay in Europe I visited together with my brother Alex and Fay the Kröller-Müller Museum at the National Park "Hoge Veluwe", near Arnhem.

The Kröller-Müller Museum is named after Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939). Helene Kröller-Müller collected almost 11,500 art objects with the help of her advisor, H.P. Bremmer.
The purchases were paid for from the capital accumulated by her husband Anton Kröller as director of Wm. H. Müller & Co.

Helene Kröller dreamt of a ‘museum-home’, a dream that came true in 1938 when the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller opened its doors.
Helene Kröller-Müller was its first director.

After her death in 1939 the museum building underwent a few expansions with the addition of a congress wing and sculpture gallery in 1953 and a whole new wing between 1970 and 1977.
This wing served as a suitable accommodation for the growing collection of modern sculpture.
The museum’s sculpture garden has increased in size over the years and is now one of the largest in Europe.