This neo-Renaissance museum house in Delft dates from 1893 and was built for Lambert van Meerten. He was an art and antiques collector with a special interest in the Dutch Golden Age. Van Meerten had this house built because of his ever-growing collection of objects. During a visit to Huis Van Meerten you can experience how this man lived among his museum pieces.

Lambert van Meerten was a wealthy Delft resident. He had a distillery. Van Meerten's collection consisted of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century building fragments (pieces from demolished buildings), Delft pottery and furniture. The versatility of his collection can also be recognized from the outside. He really saw Huis van Meerten as his city palace. After his death, Van Meerten wanted to donate the house to the city of Delft on the condition that it became a museum. However, he went bankrupt three years before his death. The two designers of the building, Adolf le Comte and Jan Schouten, set up a foundation so that the museum could still be realized. The museum opened in 1909 with Le Comte as director. In 2013 the museum was closed and the collection was transferred to Museum Prinsenhof. Three years later the house was purchased by the Hendrick de Keyser Association and today it can be visited as part of Museum Houses. Filled to the brim with arts and crafts

You cannot escape the fact that Lambert van Meerten had a great predilection for everything related to arts and crafts at Huis van Meerten. Everywhere you look you can see old building fragments: consoles, wood carvings, tile panels and fireplaces. Paneling, mosaic floors and stained glass complemented the whole. However, among all the beauty, room was also left for modern conveniences. The house was not only equipped with gas and electricity, but people could even warm their feet with underfloor heating.