43.1 White symbolises innocence and chastity and is the colour of supreme purity. Angels wear white robes, Christening gowns are white and, since the Renaissance, brides from noble families have...

42.1 For many centuries, yellow evoked negative – xenophobic and moralistic – associations. From the Middle Ages, it was used to identify Jews, Muslims and prostitutes. In combination with green...

Why is there a surcharge on the entrance fee? The Kunstmuseum presents a wide range of exhibitions and brings international masterpieces to The Hague. By combining different collections, we offer...

Good news: the museum will be able to open again from Saturday 5 June! After almost six months of lockdown we can hardly wait to welcome visitors again. Come and enjoy our beautiful building and all...

‘I am clay’. This statement by the ceramicist Vilma Henkelman (1944-2023) makes it clear how much she identified with this material. Informed by feminism, Henkelman freed clay from connotations of

Marie Kuyken (1898–1988) has remained one of the Netherlands’ most neglected designers, in part because so few of her colourful and imaginative ‘cloisonné panels’ have survived. But that is about to

Artist Bob Bonies (b. 1937, The Hague) has created a body of work that now spans six decades. Since the 1960s he has been making ‘concrete art’, abstract geometric paintings that have defined the

The exhibition Specific Objects presents prints and a sculpture from the 1980s and 1990s by Donald Judd (1928-1994) together with works by three Dutch makers: Maria van Kesteren (1933-2020), Pieter Geraedts (b.1940) and Geert Lap (1951-2017). On show in Kunstmuseum Den Haag from 27 April untill 3 November 2024.