Constant Willem  Lunsingh Scheurleer  ( 07.09.1881  -  03.03.1941 )

Constant W. Lunsingh Scheurleer was a dutch banker based in The Hague. Who had a great interest in antiquity and assembled, since 1899, an extensive collection of archaeological artifacts. He travelled to Egypt in 1902, where he acquired artefacts for his collection; he also contributed to William M. Flinders Flinders Petrie's British School of Archaeology in Egypt and to the Egypt Exploration Society in order to acquire Egyptian objects. He was able to purchase artefacts from the Von Bissing collection, including some having come from EES/BSAE excavations. In 1924, he established the Archaeological Museum Scheurleer in The Hague and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Danzig in 1925 and a second one by the University of Amsterdam the following year. Following his father's death in 1927, he managed the Scheurleer Museum of Music History. From 1920 to 1932, Lunsingh Scheurleer served as the chairman of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In this role, he initiated the Museum of Reproductions of Sculpture and became the director of the Museum of Applied Arts in The Hague. Due to the economic crisis, Scheurleer & Zoonen went bankrupt in 1932, leading Constant W. Lunsingh Scheurleer to close his museums.

The archaeological collection was in large parts sold to the Allard Pierson Foundation, which aimed at keeping it in the Netherlands and gifted it to the University of Amsterdam, on the condition of a the creation of a public museum. These artefacts fomr the core of the collection of the Allard Pierson Archaeological Museum of Amsterdam University, which was established in 1934. This museum also manages Lunsingh Scheurleer's collection archive and correspondence.