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The early history of the Stedelijk Museum library: the Kloet years

  • Michiel Nijhoff (a1)
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On 5 May 2007, the Stedelijk Museum library in Amsterdam was exactly 50 years old – although a collection of books known as ‘the library’ began long before that in the building on the Paulus Potterstraat. Louis Kloet was the first librarian. He founded and ran the library from 1953 until 1980, a period in which the collection and the number of visitors grew steadily and it evolved into one of the most important libraries of modern art in Europe.

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1. Haagse Post, 5 januari 1963.
2. Sandberg, W., ‘Gedachten over een museum van hedendaagse kunst,’ De Groene Amsterdammer, 20 december 1952.
3. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, http://www.stedelijk.nl/.
4. Kloet, L., ‘De bibliotheek van het Stedelijk Museum,Museumjournal 2 no.7-8 (February 1957): 149.
5. Adamnet, http://www.adamnet.nl/.
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