Nederland - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (Municipal Museum Schiedam) was founded in 1899 and has been located in the Dutch national monument Sint Jacobsgasthuis since 1940. (A gasthuis is a combination of retirement home and hospital, a place one can visit from the age of 40.)

This hospital was built in 1787 in a symmetrical, neo-classical style after a design by architect Italian Jan Guidici. It was built on the site of an even older hospice which was founded around 1547. The property housed poor elderly people until 1934 and that function is apparent from its floor plan: in the centre of the building there is a large chapel with a wing on either side. The left wing was used as a men's wing and the right as a women's wing.

After a renovation (2013) the former neoclassical chapel (PiP) has been transformed into the main entrance for the museum. It also houses a café and a museum shop.