Japanmuseum SieboldHuis

To further express the long and historically unique ties between the Netherlands and Japan, in 1999 the SieboldHuis Foundation was established. The aim of this foundation was to reopen the SieboldHuis as a museum to house the collection that Siebold himself had once exhibited here. Franz Philipp von Siebold (1796-1866) lived in this house and displayed his collection of Japanese objects and artefacts to a captivated public. Today, after more than 150 years, his former residence is now the first official Japan centre in the Netherlands. The return of the SieboldHuis in 2005 was generously supported by the Japanese and Dutch Governments, corporate commitment from both countries as well as the JCC (Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and the city of Leiden. The Leiden Volkenkunde Museum (National Museum of Ethnology) and Naturalis (the National Museum of Natural History) both participate(d) in the realization and conservation of the SieboldHuis museum on the basis of their lead...