Museum of Bags and Purses

Museum of Bags and Purses
Tassenmuseum Amsterdam
	Museum of Bags and Purses, Herengracht, Amsterdam
	Location within the city center of Amsterdam
Former name	Tassenmuseum Hendrikje
Established	1996; current location 2007
Dissolved	April 2020
Location	Herengracht 573; Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates	52°21′57″N 4°53′48″E / 52.365938°N 4.896782°E
Type	Fashion Museum
Key holdings	Margaret Thatcher's handbag, early pieces from Hermès, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton, pieces owned by celebrities including Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor
Collections	Handbags and accessories
Collection size	5,000 bags
Visitors	85.084 (2014)
Founder	Sigrid Ivo
Director	Manon Schaap
Curator	Leonie Sterenborg
Public transit access	Rembrandtplein Tramhalte
Website	tassenmuseum.nl/en/

The Museum of Bags and Purses (Dutch: Tassenmuseum Amsterdam), was a museum devoted to the history of bags, purses, and their related accessories. Located in Amsterdam's historic central canal belt,^[2] the museum's collection included over 5,000 items dating back to the sixteenth-century.

One of only three museums across the globe specialising in this field, it housed the world's largest collection of bags and purses.^[3]^[4]

The Museum of Bags and Purses was the first cultural institution in the Netherlands to announce its permanent closure in April 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.^[5]

^ [1], Toeristiche Barometer, 2015. Retrieved on 6 October 2015.
^ Ahmed, Shamim (10 July 2015). "Amsterdam • Venice of the North". theindependentbd.com. The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
^ Yucel, Suzan. "Handbag museum feeds female obsession", Reuters, August 31, 2007. Accessed August 24, 2008.
^ "Bagging it", The Age, November 8, 2007. Accessed August 24, 2008.
^ Narinx, Cécile; Moorman, Mark (2020-04-30). "Het eerste slachtoffer in de culturele sector is een feit: het Tassenmuseum in Amsterdam sluit de deuren". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-17.

[resultsmuseums2014-1] [1], Toeristiche Barometer, 2015. Retrieved on 6 October 2015.

[2] Ahmed, Shamim (10 July 2015). "Amsterdam • Venice of the North". theindependentbd.com. The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

[Reuters-3] Yucel, Suzan. "Handbag museum feeds female obsession", Reuters, August 31, 2007. Accessed August 24, 2008.

[TheAge-4] "Bagging it", The Age, November 8, 2007. Accessed August 24, 2008.

[5] Narinx, Cécile; Moorman, Mark (2020-04-30). "Het eerste slachtoffer in de culturele sector is een feit: het Tassenmuseum in Amsterdam sluit de deuren". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-17.

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