After the agreement between the Rotterdam City Council and Boijmans, the Schielandshuis was bought by City Council to house the collections.[5] The painter and art dealer, Arie Johannes Lamme, was named the museum's first Director. Much of the museum's original collection was destroyed in a fire in 1864. After the devastating fire breakout, the Schielandshuis became small to fit the growing collections and visitors of Museum Boijmans.