Kasteel Museum Sypesteyn

Investigation results

None of the objects in this museum have problematic provenance.

Result of this investigation

The museum reports that investigators found no objects with problematic provenance. Most of the collection, much of which has been in the Sypesteyn family’s possession for many years, was acquired before 1933. The collection is largely the same as that recorded in 1927. In the postwar period, especially after 1954, occasional items were purchased. Most of these pieces are Loosdrecht porcelain. After 1954, the museum bought a pastel portrait of Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn. Investigators found no new information in RKD (The Netherlands Institute for Art History) records. Sypesteyn Castle’s collection contains no items of Jewish interest.

Information from previous research (report Museum Acquisitions 1940-1948)

View reaction of Kasteel Museum Sypesteyn in the report Museale acquisitions 1940-1948 which was published in 1999 in response to the previous museum research.

About this museum and its collection

The castle was built in the early twentieth century by the last scion of the Van Sypesteyn family. Jonkheer Henri van Sypesteyn hoped to resurrect his ancestral family bastion on its original site, radiating the ambience of 1600. The castle contains portraits of the Sypesteyn family, clocks, sculpture and applied art, including the largest collection of eighteenth-century Loosdrecht porcelain.