2016
Partnership NN Group and the Mauritshuis
21 January 2016
For the next three years (from 2016 to 2019), NN Group will be partner of the Mauritshuis. Through this partnership, we are joining our forces in order to stir enthusiasm about the Mauritshuis amongst a broader, more international audience.
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Mauritshuis Acquires Rare Masterpiece
09 March 2016
The Mauritshuis has acquired a masterpiece by the 17th-century painter Roelant Savery (1576 – 1639) for €6.5 million, thanks to the generous support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Rembrandt Association and a private individual. The painting, Vase of Flowers in a Stone Niche (1615), was destined to be on display at Tefaf in Maastricht.
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Visitor's Choice on view
20 May 2016
The painting Jacob Savery's Fair on St Sebastian's Day is selected Visitor's Choice and will be given a temporary place in the Mauritshuis's permanent collection.
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British Queen lends 22 Paintings to the Mauritshuis
14 June 2016
From 29 September 2016 to 8 January 2017 the Mauritshuis will exhibit At Home in Holland: Vermeer and his Contemporaries from the British Royal Collection, including the most important Dutch genre paintings from the British Royal Collection.
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25 June: Veterans Day 2016
16 June 2016
On 25 June The Hague celebrates Veterans Day. The Mauritshuis is open, but due to the parades on Veterans Day the Mauritshuis-area will only be accessible to pedestrians.
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Mauritshuis two years open
27 June 2016
The Mauritshuis reopened after twenty-four months of building renovations exactly two years ago today. To celebrate our second anniversary we've created a special version of the official opening ceremony:
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Friends of the Mauritshuis Marks Second Anniversary with a Seventeenth-Century Bouquet of Roses
27 June 2016
The Friends of the Mauritshuis Foundation has found a special way to commemorate the museum's second anniversary after its reopening. The Foundation announced today that it has acquired Roses in a Glass Vase, painted in around 1640-1645 by Jacob van Hulsdonck (1582-1647) and will place it on long-term loan to the Mauritshuis.
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Deputy Director Mauritshuis Announces Departure
07 July 2016
Deputy Director Victor Moussault (1956) will leave his position at the Mauritshuis as of 1 January 2017. After ten years at the museum, he will depart at a high point, and has chosen to pursue new challenges. He will focus on project management and consultancy work, as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the renovation of Het Loo Palace and other consulting projects, such as for the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway.
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The Duchess of Cambridge to visit the Mauritshuis
21 September 2016
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge will visit the Mauritshuis on 11 October 2016. The visit is planned to coincide with the exhibition At Home in Holland: Vermeer and his contemporaries from the Royal Collection, which includes 22 important genre paintings from her family’s collection, and which will be open to the public from 29 September.
Mauritshuis favourite The Goldfinch in Edinburgh
03 November 2016
From 4 November through 18 December 2016, one of the most famous masterpieces in the collection of the Mauritshuis, The Goldfinch, will be shown at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. The painting will return to the Mauritshuis on time for Christmas.
New App Reveals Secrets of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
09 November 2016
As of today a brand new app, Second Canvas Mauritshuis, renders Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring and ‘The Garden of Eden’ by Rubens en Brueghel to zoom in on the brushstrokes of the paintings in Gigapixel.
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Exhibition At Home in Holland extended until 5 February 2017
06 December 2016
Due to popular demand, the exhibition At Home in Holland: Vermeer and his Contemporaries from the British Royal Collection has been extended. Masterpieces by artists such as Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch and Gerrit Dou will be on show in the Mauritshuis until 5 February 2017 .
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This spring in the Mauritshuis: Slow Food. Still Lifes of the Golden Age.
14 December 2016
From 9 March through 25 June 2017 the Mauritshuis presents Slow Food. Still Lifes of the Golden Age , the first exhibition to be devoted to the development of still lifes depicting prepared food – called meal still lifes – that were created in Holland and Flanders from 1600 onwards.
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Mauritshuis presents catalogue of genre paintings.
15 December 2016
The Mauritshuis has conducted extensive art historical and technical research into its collection of Dutch and Flemish genre paintings in recent years. The ensuing discoveries and insights have been incorporated into the new English-language catalogue, Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis .
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