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Museum De Reede Explores the Human Condition in Graphic Art
27 September 2024
Since Museum De Reede opened its doors in 2017, the small-scale private museum quickly emerged as one of Antwerp’s cultural hotspots. It highlights the diversity of graphic art: from old masters such as Goya, Munch and Rops, to works by living artists Fred Bervoets and Marcelle Hanselaar. The choi
New Museum Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Art
25 September 2024
Old Dutch and Flemish art can be admired in hundreds of museums worldwide. Every now and then they add new work to their collections. In recent months, art from the Low Countries has been acquired by museums in London, Los Angeles, Ohio, Amsterdam and Mechelen.
New Holocaust Museum Shows The Persecution Of Jews In Its True Colours
13 March 2024
Knowledge about the Holocaust and the role played by the Dutch in it is declining - especially among young people. High time, then, for the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. But what can this museum say that has not been said before by dozens of other Dutch museums and memorial sites conce
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
Our Top Art Stories of the Year
10 December 2023
Join us in bidding goodbye to 2023 with some of the most surprising stories we have published this year on the beautiful art being made in Flanders and the Netherlands. They are worth reading again. Sit down by the fireplace. Relax with a glass of wine and enjoy the stories.
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
‘Ode to Antwerp’ Shows the Shared History of Flanders and the Netherlands
28 August 2023
The exhibition Ode to Antwerp at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht explicitly presents old masters from the Low Countries and not from Holland or Flanders. How did this expo come about, and what does it say about the cooperation between the museums in the Low Countries? “For foreign curators, th
A Museum Summer Filled With New Acquisitions
24 August 2023
For most museums, this summer was a success not only in terms of visitor numbers. Some were also able to enrich their collections by acquiring beautiful early modern Dutch and Flemish art. We briefly list all purchases.
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
Grand Reopening of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
28 September 2022
After eleven years of renovations, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is opening its doors once again. It is the talk of the town, the country and beyond, because the aim of the new wing for modern art, two hundred restored works and an interactive visitor experience is to attract visitor