Collectie Vrolik

Foam presents the 'Vrolik Collection' as photographed by Hans van den Bogaard. This private collection of Professor Gerardus Vrolik (1775-1859) and his son Professor Willem Vrolik (1801-1863) contains anatomical, pathological-anatomical, zoological and teratological specimens. After Willem Vrolik's death, the collection was under threat of public sale. In 1869, an Amsterdam citizens' committee managed to acquire the collection in its entirety, and turned it over to the city. The collection forms the basis of the sizeable Vrolik Museum, which is managed by the Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC).