Two adults and a child are looking at a sculpture of a horse with a rider in the sculpture gallery.

Support the Helene Kröller-Müller Fund

Join our backers club

Do you want to help preserve the collection, make exhibitions possible, or introduce schoolchildren to the world of art? Join our backers club and contribute to wonderful projects.

Helene Kröller-Müller also appealed to private individuals to help make her dream of a 'museum house' a reality. Helene referred to these donors as ‘Gulden Boekers’ (golden backers). In this way, she also left us a strong tradition of giving. This resulted in the Helene Kröller-Müller Fund and our backers club. As a backer, you can also link your contribution to a specific project.

Photo of a group of people casually talking in the sculpture garden in front of a brightly coloured blue food truck.

What extras are there for backers?

As a backer, you have free admission to De Hoge Veluwe National Park and the Kröller-Müller Museum. You also receive invitations to exhibition previews, the Helene Kröller-Müller Day on 11 February, backer gatherings inside and outside the museum, special behind-the-scenes glimpses, and exclusive backer trips with Director Benno Tempel.

Will you join the backers club?

Golden backer

As a golden backer, you donate €5,000 annually for five years or make a one-off donation of €25,000.

Silver backer

As a silver backer you donate €2,500 annually for five years or make a one-off donation of €12,500.

Bronze backer

As a bronze backer you donate €1,000 annually for five years or make a one-off donation of €5,000.

Pioneers

For art lovers up to 50 years old. As a pioneer, you donate €500 annually for five years or a one-time donation of €2,500.

New: Pioneers for donors up to 50 years old

We are developing a donation programme especially for the new generation of art lovers. You can become a member for as little as €500 per year.

In return, you receive exclusive invitations to festive openings and an invitation to the annual Garden Party in the sculpture garden, a special evening (in the company of artists) that you absolutely do not want to miss.

Two people walking through the corridor with glass windows in the Kröller-Müller Museum

What does the fund do with my contribution?

A question that often arises in fundraising is: ‘Where does the money go?’ Our current and completed projects are highlighted on the projects page (Dutch). The Helene Kröller-Müller Fund also provides full openness in its annual review (Dutch).

Goals

The fund contributes to:

educational projects
restoring masterpieces – such as the visitors’ favourite Jardin d’émail by Jean Dubuffet;
exhibitions.

Tax benefit

The Helene Kröller-Müller Fund is a cultural ANBI (public benefit) organisation. As a result, you can deduct your donation from your income tax. Donors to cultural ANBIs are eligible for an additional tax deduction. As a private individual, you may multiply a donation to a cultural ANBI by 1.25 in your income tax return and deduct it as a donation.
Your donation then goes entirely to the Kröller-Müller Museum, because the fund does not have to pay gift tax or inheritance tax on it.

You can read more about the tax benefits of donating on the website of the Dutch Tax Authority.

Founding

The Helene Kröller-Müller Fund was founded in 2013 as an initiative of former politician Alexander Pechtold and actress Johanna ter Steege. It was their labour of love for the most beautiful museum in the Netherlands: the Kröller-Müller Museum.

Private individuals and companies sympathetic to the collection and the museum can join the fund.

The fund bears the name of the museum’s founder: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939). She and her adviser, H.P. Bremmer, collected approximately 11,500 pieces of art.

‘For the benefit and enjoyment of the community’

Helene Kröller-Müller and her husband Anton Kröller amassed a unique and now world-famous collection of modern art by making ambitious purchases.

Helene dreamed of her own ‘museum house’ where she could share her passion for art with the world.

In 1938 Helene’s dream came true with the opening of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller. To maintain the collection and ensure it remained ‘for the benefit and enjoyment of the community’, she appealed to wealthy art lovers, who contributed to the museum on an annual basis.

About the initiators

Alexander Pechtold

Former chairman of the D66 parliamentary party in the the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
‘Do you love the Kröller-Müller too?’ I used to love going there as a child, because it is in the middle of the forest which always meant a day full of adventure. To this very day, I am already enjoying myself even before I enter the park.'

Johanna ter Steege

Actress
‘That sense of wonder...’ I was thirteen when I first visited the Kröller-Müller Museum sculpture garden. It was a beautiful day and the sculpture garden seemed infinitely big. As we were walking through the garden, we found Jean Dubuffet’s Jardin d'émail, which made a huge and lasting impression on me.’

Artwork consisting of oil barrels in the colors red, blue, and white. Set on a white pedestal, in a wooded environment with green foliage on the trees. In the background, a modern museum building

Questions?

If you have any questions or want more information about the activities of the backers club, please get in touch with:
Daniëlle van Stralen, Relationship Manager
+31 318591241 or daniellevanstralen@krollermuller.nl