door GJFdeJong | aug 16, 2024 | De locaties, Musea, Nederland
museum – Teylers Museum Teylers Museum was named after Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), a prosperous cloth and silk merchant in Haarlem, and a sponsor of the arts and sciences at the time of the Enlightenment. Inspired by the belief that knowledge was the key...
door GJFdeJong | aug 16, 2024 | De locaties, Musea, Nederland
location – Rijksmuseum The treasure chest of the Netherlands, with the country’s largest collection of 17th-century paintings. Dutch Light shows some of the highlights of the collection and visits the museum’s repositories....
door GJFdeJong | aug 16, 2024 | De locaties, Musea, Nederland
museum – Mauritshuis Arguably the best museum in the Netherlands for paintings of Dutch light, with one of the finest collections of 17th-century art. The Mauritshuis was built in 1640 for Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen, after a design by the two most famous...
door GJFdeJong | aug 16, 2024 | De locaties, Musea, Nederland
museum – Hofwijck Former residence and country home in Voorburg, designed and commissioned in 1642 by the architect, poet, art connoisseur, and composer Constantijn Huygens. His son Christiaan lived in the house until his death in 1695. Christiaan Huygens was one of...
door GJFdeJong | aug 16, 2024 | De locaties, Musea, Nederland
museum – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Gemeentemuseum The Hague, built in 1935 by the architect Berlage, is much loved for its architecture alone. But inside the collections are so vast that you really could spend the whole day there! You will come across the work of...
door GJFdeJong | aug 16, 2024 | De locaties, Musea, Nederland
museum – de Pont The outstanding collection of modern art at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg includes work by the American James Turrell. Besides a more or less permanent exhibition of art from its own holdings, the museum organises three large and several smaller...
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