year | 2024
place | Maastricht
category | Utiliteit
DMM
Museum of the Art of Printing - Chapel of Imagination
Programme: workshop and chapel transformed into a museum
The location of Jodenstraat 22 in the historic centre of Maastricht, the Vincentiuskapel and the courtyard behind it have a rich history.
From 1840 to 1850, the house in Jodenstraat was home to Monseigneur Rutten, who was well known for his efforts to improve the living conditions of the working class in the Maastricht pottery and glass industries and for his concern for the welfare of the children of factory workers.
22 Jodenstraat was a low-slung house with a backyard and a garden. Around 1850, Monseigneur Rutten had several classrooms built in the backyard and a neo-Gothic St Vincent's Chapel designed by the German architect Carl Weber.
The lower level of the chapel served as a refectory, while the upper level was used for worship.
The St Vincent's Chapel is of cultural-social importance as well as of cultural-historical architectural value.
The current programme is a museum of art of printing and the work of graphic artist René Glaser.
Through a series of subtle interventions, we have made the different parts of the buildings into a whole, while respecting the individual parts and their specific spatial experiences.
From the entrance on the Jodenstraat, a route leads the visitor through a room with a historical overview of printing and printmaking to the hidden chapel in the inner courtyard of the urban block.
On the ground floor of the chapel [Chapel of Imagination] is a reconstruction of the pottery printing workshop in Petrus Regout's factories. On the upper floor of the chapel is the 'Room of Thought Mechanics', is an exhibition setting with the work of the graphic artist René Glaser.
Design - Realisation: 2008 - 2024, ongoing
Address: Jodenstraat 22, Maastricht
Client: Stichting Drukkerij Museum/Kapel van Verbeelding
Project team: Jo Janssen, Simon Zumstein, Maud van Oerle, Ilana van den Broek
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Programme: workshop and chapel transformed into a museum
The location of Jodenstraat 22 in the historic centre of Maastricht, the Vincentiuskapel and the courtyard behind it have a rich history.
From 1840 to 1850, the house in Jodenstraat was home to Monseigneur Rutten, who was well known for his efforts to improve the living conditions of the working class in the Maastricht pottery and glass industries and for his concern for the welfare of the children of factory workers.
22 Jodenstraat was a low-slung house with a backyard and a garden. Around 1850, Monseigneur Rutten had several classrooms built in the backyard and a neo-Gothic St Vincent's Chapel designed by the German architect Carl Weber.
The lower level of the chapel served as a refectory, while the upper level was used for worship.
The St Vincent's Chapel is of cultural-social importance as well as of cultural-historical architectural value.
The current programme is a museum of art of printing and the work of graphic artist René Glaser.
Through a series of subtle interventions, we have made the different parts of the buildings into a whole, while respecting the individual parts and their specific spatial experiences.
From the entrance on the Jodenstraat, a route leads the visitor through a room with a historical overview of printing and printmaking to the hidden chapel in the inner courtyard of the urban block.
On the ground floor of the chapel [Chapel of Imagination] is a reconstruction of the pottery printing workshop in Petrus Regout's factories. On the upper floor of the chapel is the 'Room of Thought Mechanics', is an exhibition setting with the work of the graphic artist René Glaser.
Design - Realisation: 2008 - 2024, ongoing
Address: Jodenstraat 22, Maastricht
Client: Stichting Drukkerij Museum/Kapel van Verbeelding
Project team: Jo Janssen, Simon Zumstein, Maud van Oerle, Ilana van den Broek
Read more about the museum:
