Partners

The Van Gogh Museum revolves around one of the greatest Dutch artists that ever lived: Vincent van Gogh. The museum is one of the three large museums located at the Museum Square in Amsterdam. The museum discloses the world’s biggest collection of works by this Dutch painter.

The collection of the Zeeuws Museum consists of 30.000 art treasures that remind of Zeeland’s past. With its beautiful, contemporary presentations, the museum shows an unexpected aspect of Zeeland and portrays its history in an original manner.

The RKD manages, preserves, researches, presents and publishes art-historical knowledge and information for museums, science and the public. The RKD wants to actively involve the public in developments and ambitions in the field of (digital) services, public outreach and digital sustainability.

Museum De Lakenhal is located in Leiden’s monumental ‘Laecken Halle’ (Cloths Hall) from 1640, where the famous Leiden cloth was coloured and sold. Nowadays it hosts a varied collection, with work by great masters like Rembrandt, Lucas van Leyden and Theo van Doesburg.

A visit to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen offers the visitor a journey through art history. The museum provides a comprehensive survey of art from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century. The Boijmans van Beuningen is one of the oldest museums in the Netherlands and was founded in 1849, when the lawyer Boijmans left his art collection to the city of Rotterdam.

The Kunsthal was designed in 1988-1989 by world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas together with project architect Fuminori Hoshino of Rotterdam-based architecture firm OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). The architecture immediately attracted great international attention for its innovative use of materials, the location of the entrance and the steep ramps, among other things.

Kunsthal KAdE offers exhibitions in the fields of contemporary/modern art, architecture, form & design and contemporary visual culture. Kunsthal KAdE does not have its own collection, but its exhibitions are outward-looking and open to impulses from all over the world. There is also an active public programme with guided tours, workshops and lectures.

The Kröller-Müller Museum is situated in a unique location: the heart of the Hoge Veluwe National Park, near Otterlo. Apart from the Van Gogh Museum, the Kröller-Müller Museum houses the second largest Van Gogh collection in the world. Masterpieces by modern masters like Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso were also included in the collection. Additionally, the museum organises special temporary exhibitions.

In 2025, FENIX will open a new cultural venue in Rotterdam inspired by migration stories from around the world. Stories about love and farewell, about coming home and feeling at home, about navigating identity or searching for happiness. A place showing stories of departure and arrival. Discover the theme through the eyes of international artists such as Do Ho Su, Shilpa Gupta, Bill Viola, Rineke Dijkstra and Omar Victor Diop.

Dordrechts Museum owns an internationally known collection of paintings that has grown into one of the most important collections in the urban museums in the Netherlands. Discover five centuries of Dutch paintings, varying from the 17th century to the present day.

The Groninger Museum is known for its transgressing character in showing fashion, visual arts, design, photography, archaeology, applied arts and installations. The building is spectacular: a highlight of postmodern architecture, designed by Alessandro Mendini. The museum’s high profile exhibitions are always slightly radical. The main collection comprises masterpieces like Christ and the Lamb, by Jeff Koons, Selfportrait with Three Children, by Charley Toorop, and pieces from Groningen’s art association De Ploeg.

The Centraal Museum Utrecht is a public house bursting with discoveries. From Van Scorel to Bruna and Viktor & Rolf. From Rietveld to the Utrecht-based Caravaggists, from Bloemaert to Marlene Dumas. Classical alongside modern, design alongside Utrecht’s urban history, experimental alongside monumental.

The Chabot Museum likes to introduce you to light, air and space in the heart of architecture city Rotterdam. This museum of international expressionism is housed in an icon of Nieuwe Bouwen (architects Baas & Stokla, 1938), located in the bustling Museumpark. Here you experience art in the bright, open spaces of one of Rotterdam’s most beautiful villas. In peace and quiet, face to face with the monumental works of Henk Chabot (1894-1949), his contemporaries and contemporary kindred spirits. An intimate, world-class art experience.

Knokke-Heist has always held a special attraction for artists, architects, sculptors and painters. You will find art at the most unexpected locations: ‘De zee, die grote beeldhouwer’ by Folon on the head of the beach near Paul Parmentierlaan or ‘Hospitality’, popularly known as ‘De Haas’ by Flanagan at the end of the Zeedijk.

The Design Museum Den Bosch specialises in contemporary art and design with international appeal and ambition. The exhibition programme is based on current social themes and the cross-fertilisation between visual and applied arts. At the heart of the collection are works by artists and designers from the 20th and 21st centuries. From objects by Pablo Picasso and Lucio Fontana, design by Gijs Bakker and Hella Jongerius, to installations and objects by promising young talents.

The Eye’s collection comprises the entire history of film: from the silent films made in the early days of cinema to the most recent digital productions. Every year, the collection is extended further with old and new Dutch or foreign titles. As the only institute in the Netherlands collecting film related items, EYE owns photographs, advertisement posters, soundtracks, machinery and paper archives of film makers.

Tough, stiff and quirky? Discover the Frisian in you at the Fries Museum! Here you will discover everything about the eleven Frisian towns and the countryside, the love-hate relationship with the water, the search for the typically Frisian and Friesland’s place in the world.

The Jewish Museum is a leading museum housed in four monumental synagogues in the middle of the Jewish Cultural Quarter. It presents a unique picture of Dutch Jewish life in all its facets, past and present. The museum has an extensive multimedia collection. From paintings to films and utensils to 3D presentations. In addition, there are usually one or two temporary exhibitions.

At the Limburgs Museum in Venlo, discover how the history of the Netherlands began thousands of years ago. This is where the first people and farmers settled. This is where the Romans entered our country, where the first Christians lived and where the first cities arose.

Museum Arnhem is located on a high moraine with a magnificent view of the Rhine. The collection is known for the most important collection of magical and neorealists in the Netherlands. In addition, Museum Arnhem has a high-quality collection of contemporary and applied art and a special collection of jewellery.

Museum Beelden aan Zee was founded in 1994 by the collector couple Theo Scholten and Lida Scholten-Miltenburg. It is the only museum in the Netherlands focusing exclusively on modern and contemporary sculpture. The shape of museum Beelden aan Zee is similar to that of a shell; on the outside, only the soft beige wall is visible and only inside does the museum building designed by architect Wim Quist reveal itself.

Museum Belvédère is located on the edge of the historic and wooded Oranjewoud Landscape Park. The sleekly designed museum building was designed by Eerde Schippers of INBO architects and was awarded the BNA architecture prize in 2006. The museum comprises two large exhibition areas and a centrally located museum café that overlooks Oranjewoud Estate, the former country residence of the Orange-Nassaus.

Museum Rijswijk is the museum in the Netherlands for paper, textiles and heritage from Rijswijk. Each exhibition is about heritage, paper or textiles, or a combination of them. The starting point for the exhibition program are topical and socially relevant subjects. Alternately, Museum Rijswijk organizes the Textile and Paper Biennale, which can be seen from the end of June to mid-November.

The Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam is the national museum of photography with an impressive collection of more than 5.5 million images. The museum shows photography in all its facets: documentary and experimental, contemporary and historical.

Nieuwe Instituut focuses on major developments in society, such as the housing shortage, the climate crisis, and the emergence of artificial intelligence. Designers, including architects and digital creatives, make an important contribution to these developments. Nieuwe Instituut shows the work of designers, brings people together, and collects, develops and shares knowledge.

Noordbrabants Museum presents art, culture and history of North Brabant to everyone. The museum is pre-eminently the place where valuable knowledge and movable cultural heritage of Brabant is preserved and exhibited. It contributes to the cultural life of the Netherlands with a diversity of special exhibitions with an (inter)national appeal.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

The Oude Kerk in Amsterdam aims to connect past and present, with contemporary art in Amsterdam’s oldest monument. The Oude Kerk is the city’s oldest building, probably founded as a wooden chapel in a hamlet on the river Amstel. The river IJ flowed up to the church, where boaters moored and prayed for a safe return home. Over the centuries, the chapel would grow into the imposing church.

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, founded in 1930 by textile magnate Jan Bernard van Heek, is the art museum of the eastern Netherlands. Housed in a historic building on Lasondersingel in Enschede, the museum houses the richest art collection in the region.

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, founded in 1930 by textile magnate Jan Bernard van Heek, is the art museum of the eastern Netherlands. Housed in a historic building on Lasondersingel in Enschede, the museum houses the richest art collection in the region.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is an international institute dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design. It’s one of the three large museums at the Museum square in Amsterdam. The collection comprises painting, sculpture, photography, film– and video art, installations, works on paper, artist books, applied art and industrial and graphic design.

The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam is a medium-sized museum for post-war Dutch art. But this was not always the case. The museum’s history goes back to 1899, the year in which Major Visser bequeathed his historical collection to the city of Schiedam, on the condition that a museum would be built for it.

Textiles have taken a firm position within the creative industries; they play an increasingly important role in what designers, artists and product developers come up with and make. Applications are multiplying and great strides are being made in the development of the material. The world of textiles is visibly on the move.

Teylers opened its doors in 1784 and is now known as the oldest museum in the Netherlands with a collection that is unique in the world. Here, art and science were stimulated and the earth and life were mapped. Since its opening, it has been a place to marvel and wonder at ancient fossils, magnificent stones, ingenious devices, precious books, fascinating coins and medals, fabulous drawings and romantic paintings.

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is one of Europe’s leading museums of contemporary art. The museum has an extensive international collection of over 2,700 artworks, including works by Lissitzky, Picasso, Kokoschka, Chagall, Beuys, McCarthy, Daniëls and Körmeling. Questions of art and society are raised by the museum in an experimental way.

In 1932, the Afsluitdijk closed off the Zuiderzee and the inland lake was renamed IJsselmeer; the part outside the dike was henceforth part of the Waddenzee. The Zuiderzee Museum focuses on the history, topicality and future of this area. The themes of water, crafts and communities are central.

The Royal Palace of Amsterdam started as the city hall, building its way to become for the longest time one of the largest establishments in Europe. A monument to peace to celebrate the end of an almost century long war between the Dutch Republic and Spain, now the Royal Palace’s function is to receive official guests and visitors, to act as the place for important state celebrations and showcase important figures of the Dutch art world. You can discover imposing sculptures of mythological figures that still serve as a reminder of how monumental the building was designed to appear.

The first museum of modern art in the province of Limburg took shape when Maarten and Reina van Bommel-van Dam decided to donate their collection of modern art to the municipality of Venlo. The couple’s condition was that they live in a house close-by, with a separate entrance to the museum where they could see the art pieces at any moment. After different relocations, the museum is now hosted by a former post-office and historical monument in Venlo.