Mrs Boon-van der Starp


Mrs Boon-van der Starp is the founder of Madurodam. She was a member of the board of the Dutch Students’ Sanatorium. In the sanatorium, students with tuberculosis could recover and study at the same time. Mrs Boon-van der Starp was looking for a way to collect money for the sanatorium and came up with the miniature city. In the years following the Second World War, this was a matter of national importance: The Netherlands was being rebuilt and Madurodam was building with it. The park offered a place for the shared history of the battered Netherlands as well as hope for the future.