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Next Nature Museum Is a Spaceship of Techno-Optimism
26 November 2024
For the past sixty years, a giant flying saucer has graced a sleepy suburb of Eindhoven: the Evoluon. Once built by Philips as a science museum, it is now a showcase for future scenarios under the name Next Nature Museum. These scenarios are colourfully fleshed out by Next Nature, the organisation t
Religious History and Current Affairs Come Together in the Luther Museum
21 August 2024
Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, was widely followed in Amsterdam. In the seventeenth century, as much as a fifth of the city's population was Lutheran. The origin story of Luther's Netherlands comes to life in a beautiful museum, housed in a monumental building from 1772 that once provi
Museum MORE Ensures Rehabilitation Of Realism
8 March 2024
Museum MORE in the rural Achterhoek adds something to the Dutch museum landscape. In an environment where art is sparsely on display, it is spread over two villages but also specializes in a movement that has long been ignored: realism. If that is not enough reason to travel to Gelderland, there is
Death is Living Culture at Funeral Museum Tot Zover
31 October 2023
A funeral museum does not immediately appeal to the imagination. But Tot Zover (So Far) in Amsterdam knows how to surprise us with exhibitions that are informative, thought-provoking, touch a sensitive chord and make you laugh. No taboo is shunned here, and funeral cake is just as much a subject as
The SieboldHuis Displays a Unique Japanese Collection of a Vain Doctor
22 September 2023
Premodern Japan used to be just as closed as modern-day North Korea. The little information that emerged came from Dutch merchants. Philipp Franz von Siebold, a German physician and naturalist in the service of the Dutch East India Company, created a collection that to this day is unique in size and
Plenty of Weapons but No War Rhetoric in National Military Museum
9 June 2023
The National Military Museum of the Netherlands is not the museum equivalent of Top Gun: a promo talk disguised as entertainment to entice new recruits. Here a balanced cultural-historical story is told, with room for nuance and self-reflection. But there is also an impressive number of weapons to s
Religious Heritage With an Injection of Contemporary Art at Museum Krona
30 March 2023
Museum Krona combines centuries-old crucifixes and monstrances with contemporary paintings and photographs. This results in particularly fresh presentations in a gem of a museum. The authenticity of the place is guaranteed by five nuns who still live and work in the abbey complex.
Nothing Stands Between the Viewer and Art in Food Art Museum LAM
3 February 2023
Hidden in the nineteenth-century park behind the world's most famous tulip garden Keukenhof is the only food art museum in the Netherlands. The LAM takes a critical look at consumption but avoids approaching it with moralism and art historical jargon.
Learn How the Netherlands Stays Dry at the Afsluitdijk Wadden Center
9 December 2022
Besides the Great Wall of China, the Afsluitdijk is the only man-made structure visible from space. The 32-kilometre-long dam between the provinces of Noord-Holland and Friesland protects a large part of the Netherlands against flooding. For a long time, however, little attention was paid to this te
At the Renovated Museum Arnhem, Exhibitions Must Contend With the Driving Force of a Glacier
22 November 2022
With an emphasis on realistic art from the 20th century and work by female artists, Museum Arnhem occupies a unique place within the range of museums on offer in the Netherlands. The new wing and improved layout of the building offer plenty of opportunities to strengthen that position.
‘Normal’ Does Not Exist at the Haarlem Museum of the Mind
31 August 2022
The psychiatry museum in Haarlem reinvented itself as a Museum of the Mind. Illness and abnormalities are not the starting point, but the conviction that 'normal' does not exist. It earned the institution the 2022 Museum of the Year Award.
A World First in Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Opens Its Entire Depot to the Public
2 December 2021
Rotterdam is a world first with Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: the first fully accessible art depot of a museum. The Depot is not only interesting as a special experience and architectural icon, but also as a serious answer to the question of the legitimacy of museums.