Museum van de Geest

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Museum van de Geest ("Museum of the Mind") was created in 2020 when Het Dolhuys ("The Madhouse"),^[1] the national museum for psychiatry in Haarlem, the Netherlands, merged with the Outsider Art Museum from Amsterdam. Het Dolhuys had been founded in 2005 in the newly renovated former old-age home known as Schoterburcht, located just across the Schotersingel from the Staten Bolwerk park.

The whole Het Dolhuys complex is much older, having for centuries been a hospital known as the Leproos-, Pest- en Dolhuys (Leper, Plague, and Mad House).

Outsider art, located in the Amsterdam part of the museum, shows artwork created by artists who only listen to the voice within themselves.