The first rooms are covered in beautiful wallpaper, giving visitors the impression of being Lilliputians entering a magical world of dolls houses and miniatures. The museum owns Lita’s 20 dolls houses and collection of over 1,000 miniature items
Click on picture for more information National Museum of Ethnology (Volkenkunde), Leiden Steenstraat 1, Leiden +31 (0)88 0042800
Het Nieuwe InstituutMuseumpark 253015CB Rotterdam +31(0)10-4401200 Het Nieuwe Instituut – architecture, design, digital culture. The contemporary era is characterised by radical technological, economic, cultural and social shifts. Het Nieuwe Instituut aims to illuminate and map a rapidly changing world while at the same time fostering discussion of topics related to the vast field of design.…
Click on photo for more information DORDRECHTS MUSEUM Museumstraat 40, 3311 XP Dordrecht Tel: 078 7708708 The museum’s establishment in 1842 was a private initiative. Dordrecht had always had an important community of collectors, and in that year five of them decided that the time was ripe to found “a Museum of Paintings” that would…
Although his links with the Surrealists were tenuous, Delvaux was very strongly influenced by one of its masters, Georgio de Chirico, after seeing The Minotaure exhibition in 1934. It was de Chirico’s mysterious arcaded night-time streets that fascinated him . . .
I must confess to having had a slight sense of déja vu seeing the Anton Heyboer exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. It was only a few weeks ago that I discovered fellow eccentric Dutchman Gerard Petrus Fieret next door at the Fotomuseum, an exhibition . . .
I was rather surprised to discover in the museum of Rijswijk, a small town between The Hague and Delft, a room full of photographs of the Beatles, most of which I had never seen before.
Chabot Museum Museumpark 11 3015 CB Rotterdam Tel. 010 436 37 13 Museum for international Expressionism in one of Rotterdam’s most beautiful villas. The Chabot Museum has an important collection of works by Dutch expressionist Henk Chabot (1894-1949) and is housed in one of Rotterdam’s most beautiful villas. The peaceful homely atmosphere of this…
