Press releases

From 14 September 2023 to 7 January 2024 the Mauritshuis will present Loot – 10 Stories, in collaboration with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, the Stadtmuseum Berlin and the Ethnologisches...

The Mauritshuis has acquired a new flower still life by Balthasar van der Ast. Vase with a Single Tulip from c. 1625 is a rare painting (26.5 x 20 cm) showing only one flowering tulip. Watercolour drawings...

What did the Girl with a Pearl Earring look like when Vermeer applied his final brushstroke to the canvas and he took the -now world-famous painting- off the easel? Are we still looking at the same painting...

HP Inc. Benelux is the Mauritshuis' new Creative Digital Project Partner. HP provides the museum in The Hague with knowledge and technology aimed at digitally unlocking its centuries-old art in various...

#mygirlwithapearl was a global call for everyone to be inspired to create a new work inspired by Johannes Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring. The final 170 + 5 works chosen represent a very great...

Starting on 6 February and continuing for the next few months, a host of new Girls with a Pearl Earring will be on show at the Mauritshuis. They arrived after we issued an open call for people to send...