Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet
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Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet is an atmospheric, authentically decorated residential house museum in Haastrecht, near Gouda. In the subdued light, you wander from room to room and see the most magnificent crockery, pieces of furniture, paintings, lavishly decorated curtains. You walk over the beautiful, hand-knotted carpets. It feels like you are visiting a wealthy family.
Paulina le Fèvre de Montigny-Bisdom van Vliet was the last resident of this nineteenth-century patrician residence. She was an extraordinary woman who meant a lot to the society of Haastrecht and its surroundings.
After Paulina died in 1923, the house was...
Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet is an atmospheric, authentically decorated residential house museum in Haastrecht, near Gouda. In the subdued light, you wander from room to room and see the most magnificent crockery, pieces of furniture, paintings, lavishly decorated curtains. You walk over the beautiful, hand-knotted carpets. It feels like you are visiting a wealthy family.
Paulina le Fèvre de Montigny-Bisdom van Vliet was the last resident of this nineteenth-century patrician residence. She was an extraordinary woman who meant a lot to the society of Haastrecht and its surroundings.
After Paulina died in 1923, the house became a museum. Paulina had stipulated this in her will. To this day, the house is still decorated exactly as it was when it was inhabited. Therefore, it offers a unique insight into the lives of wealthy families from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All this makes Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet a place of great museum historical interest.
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