Former football player Piet Keur has recently become the name giver of his own beach entrance in Zandvoort. A path that runs from the boulevard to beach bar Mango’s is now called the ‘Piet Keurafgang.’
The ‘Piet Keurafgang’ would never have happened if the Zandvoorts Museum hadn’t kept him out of the photo exhibition about famous Dutch people who live or once lived in the seaside resort. Friends of Keur felt that the former footballer was being neglected and made their own street sign for the Zandvoort racer.
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“Piet actually deserves a statue, but they didn’t quite understand that at that museum,” says Glenn Jansen, manager of Mango’s and friend of Keur. “That he is not part of the exhibition is ridiculous. That is why we named the beach entrance after him. At least that is something.” Piet Keur, former striker of Haarlem, AZ, FC Twente and Feyenoord, among others, thinks it is ‘strange that people are exhibited in the Zandvoorts Museum who have only lived here for a few years.’
Summer cottage
Keur: “It is of course completely justified that Jan Lammers is included. He has been a very good racing driver and a real Zandvoort. But I see names of people who have been injured here for a few years at the most. Maybe they had a summer house for a while .” Toon Hermans, a cabaret artist from Limburg, is said to have lived in Zandvoort for only a short time. Nevertheless, it has a prominent place in the exhibition.
Choose ‘don’t mind’. After all, he now has his own street. “Great! Very nice that those guys did this for me.”
Museum director: “We have to make sharp choices”
Hilly Jansen, director of the Zandvoorts Museum, says that two guest curators were hired for the photo exhibition ‘who made their own decisions.’ Jansen: “We only have very little space, so they had to make sharp choices. You always have discussions with these kinds of things. I think Piet is a very nice man and last year a large photo of him was placed on the boulevard, together with fashion designer Frans Molenaar, so we certainly haven’t forgotten him.”