Figures of the Laughing Buddha: we’ve been crazy about them in the Netherlands for centuries. They originated in China and have been in great demand in Europe since the seventeenth century. Potters

Delft Blue: the iconic Dutch earthenware is known all over the world. It remains popular to this day, and although we think we know its history, we continue to discover new things about it. Many of

In spring 2006, the period rooms at the Gemeentemuseum will be alive with birds: one of the most popular artistic subjects from the natural world. Birds of prey, decoys, songbirds, aviary birds and

Junior, a textile doll with wild hair of straw, is seated on an Afro-Asian woven rattan peacock chair. As always, Wiebke Siem’s selection of furniture and other attributes is telling. This throne-like...

One of the Netherlands’ first ever interior design stores opened to the public in 1900. Known as ’t Binnenhuis and run by H.P. Berlage and Jacques van den Bosch, the store and its well-designed modern

Bernard Buffet (1928 - 1999) produced more than 8000 works in the course of his long career. They ranged from still lifes, nudes and melancholy self-portraits to Parisian townscapes and landscapes

This exhibition provides a unique portrait of one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century: the 1960s. Alongside Dutch artists like Ger van Elk, Daan van Golden and Jan Schoonhoven, it

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s new Animals Galore exhibition presents an amazing multiplicity of animals. A sweep of the museum’s rich and varied decorative arts, fashion and sculpture collections has