Beautiful objects in Chinese porcelain bearing Dutch family coats of arms give us a glimpse into the Netherlands’ glorious past as a seafaring and trading nation. The exhibition Presenting Arms has

Venice may be famous around the world for its Grand Canal, its Bridge of Sighs and the Piazza San Marco, but for centuries the glorious objects produced by the glassblowers of Murano have brought it

Ever since the early 1960s, Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929) has been collecting Outsider Art: work by people on the fringes of society, including psychopaths, schizophrenics and other mentally ill people. The

Hague School paintings are full of the traditional beauties of Holland: grazing cattle, windmills and billowing white clouds. Weissenbruch, Mesdag, Gabriël, Mauve and other Hague School painters went

The legendary Indonesia of the past comes to life in the sumptuous gold jewellery of the pre-colonial Javanese court culture and unique silver objects made in Batavia the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915) was a leading member of the Hague School and the only one of that group to specialise in painting seascapes. As part of the Mesdag Year, this exhibition at the

Karel Petrus Cornelis de Bazel (1869 – 1923) is known in the Netherlands principally as an architect. He built many country villas in the Gooi (North Holland) and designed the headquarters of the

Jozef Israëls was already a celebrated and popular painter of the Hague School when his son Isaac was born. Isaac’s talent emerged at an early age and it is not surprising that he followed in his