Leeuwarden - Municipal Museum

A fine classical-style mansion at Grote Kerkstraat 15, the Princessehof (17th-18th C.), houses the Municipal Museum. The house was once occupied by Princess Maria Louise, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (1688-1765), widow of Stadholder Johan Willem Friso. The museum buildings include a former store and a mansion of the 15th-16th centuries (Papingstins, No. 13), with a restored onion-domed tower. The nucleus of the museum was a collection assembled by a local lawyer named Nanne Ottema (1874-1944), a connoisseur of Chinese porcelain. It includes a varied range of ceramics in different styles and techniques, including porcelain from East Asia, Korea and Japan, tiles from Japan, China and Southeast Asia, Art Nouveau work (Rozenburg eggshell