The struggle for a new museum location.

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The Louwman Collection is the home of one of the finest collections of historic motor cars in the world (especially the pre 1900 collection is unique). The Museum is developing plans to move the museum from Raamsdonksveer to a new location in The Hague, Netherlands, near ’Huis ten Bosch’ (KoninklijkHuis.nl), the residence of Queen Beatrix. Despite the full consent of local authorities -in typical Dutch fashion- no less than nine (!) different protest groups met last week to discuss how to oppose the plans. Their objections range from environmental reasons and bird watching, to local groups who fear their quality of life will be affected by the new arrival. Not deterred, the Louwman Collection is planning to open the new museum, which will be another architectural masterpiece by Michael Graves, in 2006. (the photos -by Rutger Booy- show the 1939 Lagonda V12 Le Mans Team Car and the 1935 Duesenberg SJ from the collection as on show during the current modern car fair AutoRAI, that by the way was organised for the first time in 1899 (click) - AutoRai.nl -

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