Museum Magazine · 18 October 2026
Museum Magazine · 18 October 2026
The Markiezenhof: a city palace that tells the city’s story
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Museum Magazine · 18 October 2026
Two collections meet at Museum Belvédère
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Museum Magazine · 18 October 2026
A solar system still turning above a living room
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Museum Magazine · 18 October 2026
The Oval Room: Teylers’ first museum gallery
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Museum Helmond: castle history and urban culture in two places
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Museum Scheldewerf: a crane and the people behind the shipyard
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Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven: art and time in a new collection display
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Philips Museum Eindhoven: from light bulb factory to future design
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Museumpark VONK: old crafts and new ideas
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Yayoi Kusama at the Stedelijk: seventy years of art beyond the dots
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Three museums for a rainy autumn holiday
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Museum stories
Trix tells us what bones do and do not hold on to
In Leiden stands a Tyrannosaurus with so much of its bone preserved that you can almost trace the shape of an animal.
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At the Depot, you see how a collection breathes
Behind the mirrored façade in Rotterdam there is no secret attic, but a building that makes storage visible.
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Ordinary houses are history too
In Arnhem stand farmhouses, shops and workers’ homes that were in the way elsewhere. Together they make up a country of everyday life.
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A museum for a sea that turned fresh
Enkhuizen is home to the life around a stretch of water that was given a different name in 1932. The dyke cut off the salt sea.
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Steam you only hear when the pumping station is running
Near Lemmer stands an engine house that is usually idle. When it gets up steam, it is no longer a showpiece.
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A tronie with a pearl, not a passport
She looks round. The pearl catches the light. A face on canvas need promise no more than that.
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Van Gogh
The Bedroom: three planes that have to become a room
Two chairs, a bed, a window. And yet it is no tidy floor plan. It is a room that comes forward.
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What he took from Japanese prints differs from sheet to sheet
He cut prints out, copied them and hung them up. One sheet is a flat branch, another a bridge that really does have depth.
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Behind the sower, ripe corn still stands
In Otterlo a man scatters seed over ploughed land, while behind him the harvest is still standing.
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Exhibitions · Museum JAN
Lita Cabellut x Goya at Museum JAN: the story behind Los Disparates
From Wednesday 23 September 2026, Museum JAN in Amstelveen is showing 22 etchings by Goya alongside 22 works by Lita Cabellut.
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Exhibitions · Stedelijk Museum Kampen
Stedelijk Museum Kampen reopens with Avercamp and his Colf Players on the Ice
After a renovation, the museum in Kampen's old town hall has been open again since 3 October 2026. First on show: a winter landscape the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis have just bought together.
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Willem de Kooning at work at the Rijksmuseum: a Rotterdammer returns with his drawings
From Friday 9 October 2026 the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shows how Willem de Kooning worked.
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