Former director Charles de Mooij will retire earlier than planned as an advisor at the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch. He does this after it turned out that he was paid from a fund for the purchase of art. A member of the museum’s supervisory board, who was involved in De Mooij’s controversial financial arrangement, has resigned from her position.
That reports de Volkskrant Thursday. The museum will end its controversial financial arrangement with De Mooij as of April 1 of this year. The scheme would actually run until July 2025.
In June 2022, director Charles de Mooij said goodbye to the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch, but appeared to have stayed on as an advisor. And he would be paid for that role from a fund that is intended, among other things, for the purchase of art, as De Volkskrant discovered at the time. In 2021, 750,000 euros were withdrawn from that fund, without stating what it would be spent on.
Advisor for three years
After his departure as director, De Mooij would remain associated with the museum as an advisor for another three years. In that role he did not receive as much salary as when he was still director, but he did build up a pension.
The province and the municipality of Den Bosch provide the museum with a subsidy and they did not accept that money for the former director was taken from the fund for the purchase of art. The museum must now use the amount from the general reserve, or equity. With the premature termination, the scheme now costs not 750,000, but 415,000 euros.
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Figurehead Charles de Mooij retires from the Noordbrabants Museum after 36 years