Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie

The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie ^[1] (National Museum of Natural History) was a museum in Leiden, The Netherlands. It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree, formed from a merger of several existing collections. This happened at the instigation of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, who saw the museum primarily as a research institute. There was also a relationship with the University of Leiden. The total collection was already quite large and has grown further over the next 150 years, mainly through regular foreign expeditions and by obtaining private collections from inheritances.

A public museum was however, not present until 1976, although from 1820 to 1913 was the museum normally opened to the public on Sundays. In 1913 the museum moved to a new building, with very little room available for exhibits, and in 1950 this room was also closed. Since then, there have been only a few visitors, on for guided tours, lectures and rare, temporary exhibitions.

In 1976, a paper, "Towards a New Museum", was produced. This led to that the museum taking on more of a central curating role, lending pieces from its collection to other museums. The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie merged in 1984 ^[2]. A permanent public exhibition was still not present. That came only when in 1986 the so-called "National Presentation" in the field of natural history was commissioned by the Dutch government. Planning began for a new building, which was completed in 1990 and launched in 1998 as "Naturalis".

Contents 1 Former Directors 2 Contributing scientists 3 Contributing artists 4 Contributing to collections 5 references 6 See also

Former Directors

• Coenraad Jacob Temminck 1820 - 1858
• Hermann Schlegel 1858 - 1884
• F.A. Jentink 1884 - 1913
• Eduard Daniel van Oort 1913 - 1933 ^[3]
• H. Boschma 1933 - 1958 ^[4]
• L.D. Brongersma 1958 - 1972 ^[5]
• W. Vervoort 1972 - 1982 ^[6]
• J.T. Wiebes 1982 - 1989 ^[7]
• T. de Caluwé (?) 1989 - 1991
• W. van der Weiden 1991 - 2003

Contributing scientists

• Marinus Boeseman ^[8]
• Heinrich Boie ^[9]
• Johann Büttikofer ^[10]
• Rudolf van Eecke
• Berend George Escher
• Otto Finsch
• Agatha Gijzen ^[11]
• Wilhem de Haan
• James Edmund Harting
• Koos den Hartog ^[12]
• Lipke Holthuis ^[13]
• Jacob Coenraad van Hasselt ^[14]
• Heinrich Kuhl ^[15]
• Jacob van der Land ^[16]
• Heinrich Christian Macklot ^[17]
• Johannes Govertus de Man
• Karl Martin ^[18]
• Gerlof Fokko Mees
• Salomon Müller
• Dirk Noordam ^[19]
• Willem Roelofs
• Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen
• Jacobus van der Vecht ^[20]
• Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven
• G. van der Zanden ^[21]

Contributing artists

• John Gerrard Keulemans
• Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek
• Joseph Smit
• Joseph Wolf

Contributing to collections

• Pieter Bleeker^{[22] [23]}
• Eugène Dubois^[24]
• Curt Eisner^[25]
• Oliver Erichson Janson^[26]
• Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn^[27]
• Thure Kumlien
• Pierre Millière
• Walter Karl Johann Roepke
• Hermann von Rosenberg
• Gerard van Rossem ^[28]
• Philipp Franz von Siebold^{[29][30][31] [32]}
• Hermanus Gerardus Maria Teunissen ^[33]
• François Le Vaillant

references

See also

• Zoologische Verhandelingen
• Scripta Geologica
• Zoologische Mededelingen