Press releases

Boy Playing the Violin and Girl Singing (c. 1628) by Frans Hals will be on display at the Frans Hals Museum from 16 July to 7 September 2025. The two paintings will receive a festive welcome, with a free...

The Hague – From 18 September 2025 to 4 January 2026 the Mauritshuis will be presenting The Grand Tour – Destination Italy, featuring masterpieces from three of the UK’s most esteemed stately homes: Burghley...

The Frans Hals Museum and the Mauritshuis have together purchased two paintings by Frans Hals at an auction in New York. Boy Playing the Violin and Girl Singing were bought at Sotheby’s with the help of...

Today the Mauritshuis presented the results of its research on three paintings in its collection. In the case of two of these works, it was not certain whether they were painted by the great master himself...

In response to its second open call, the Mauritshuis in The Hague received more than 2700 new interpretations of Vermeer’s iconic masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring. “We are amazed and overwhelmed,”,...

In 2025 the Mauritshuis will mark eighty years since the liberation of the Netherlands. The German occupation was a turbulent time for the Mauritshuis, with its collection in storage, propaganda exhibitions,...