Museum van de Geest
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Museum van de Geest (meaning in English: Museum of the Mind), was created in 2020 when museum Het Dolhuys (meaning in English: "The crazy house")[1] the national museum for psychiatry in Haarlem, Netherlands, which was founded in 2005 in the newly renovated former old age home known as Schoterburcht, located just across the Schotersingel from the Staten Bolwerk park, merged with the Outsider Art Museum from Amsterdam.
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The whole Het Dolhuys complex is much older, having been a hospital for centuries known as the Leproos-, Pest- en Dolhuys.
Outsider art, located in the Amsterdam part of the museum, shows artwork created by artists who only listen to the voice within themselves.