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JOPIE HUISMAN MUSEUM

J.H. WOUDA, G.J. VAN DER SCHAAF, -1992, Noard 6, Workum

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Henk Wouda
Gurbe van der Schaaf

BUILDING TYPE:
Museums and exhibition buildings

Devoted to the work of the painter Jopie Huisman (1922-2000), who enunciated the desire to show his work in a space 'as simple as shit', the museum consists of two long, narrow traditionally built masses stitched seamlessly into the protected townscape. Here are the galleries where the paintings are hung. The space between the two contains the entrance beneath a glazed roof structure of Corten steel portals. The rusty steel is a reminder of Huisman’s former trade of iron merchant.