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...

To all visitors, As a result of the extra measures introduced by the government, we will unfortunately be closed again from Thursday 5 November. As things now stand, we expect to remain closed for two...

‘This was the chance of a lifetime’, says director Benno Tempel of the museum’s acquisition of two seventeenth-century Delftware flower pyramids. ‘Very few flower pyramids have survived intact over...

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...

How many meanings does colour have? And what do artists do with that?

In True Colors, highlights of contemporary art dialogue with icons of modern art. Charley Toorop, Donald Judd and Bridget Riley

The Hague had a flourishing artistic climate in the early 1860s. Artists like Jozef Israëls, the Maris brothers, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Hendrik Willem Mesdag moved to the city and started