Enjoy the Mauritshuis’s paintings at home. With these games of seek and find, you can look at the paintings in close-up and discover new details. A flower still life, for example, often isn’t just that… Curious to know more?
Task: Look for the creepy crawlers
This type of painting we call a flower still life. The flowers are indeed standing still, but if you take a closer look, you'll see all kinds of small insects.
There are 13 in total. Can you find them all? Click on the painting to take a closer look.
Which type of insect you like the most? That one should get it's own painting. Can make it?
Now that it is spring, you can find all kinds of small animals outside. Which insects from the painting can you find outside?
- Age: 4+ to do together
- Age: 7+ independent
- Click on the painting or the link below it to take a closer look by zooming in or out.
- Did you finish? Check the right answers here. Go to the solutions.
Task: Search for the animals
This is the Garden of Eden. You see two humans and a lot of animals. Can you find the following animals:
- Guinea pigs
- Swans
- a Squirrel
- Pigs
- a Snake
- a Monkey
- an Elephant
- a Cat
- a Rooster
- a Crocodile
There is also a goldfinch in this painting. This bird is very famous because Carel Fabritius made a painting of it. You can see that particular painting alongside. Can you find the goldfinch in the Garden of Eden?
- Age: 4+ to do together
- Click on the painting or the link below it to take a closer look by zooming in or out.
- Did you finish? Check the right answers here. Go to the solutions.
