Press releases

Head Researcher Abbie Vandivere and Annelies van Loon switch on the macro-X-ray fluorescence scanner. Vermeer’s painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) will be scanned millimetre by millimetre during...

Lokke Moerel has been named Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Mauritshuis in The Hague as of 1 April 2018. Lokke Moerel, lawyer at global law firm Morrison & Foerster and professor of Global ICT at...

Better a good neighbour than a distant friend, so the saying goes. In the second half of 2017 the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) will be lending the Mauritshuis Flemish Old Masters from its...

From 9 March through 25 June 2017 the Mauritshuis presents Slow Food: Still Lifes of the Golden Age, the first exhibition to be devoted to the development of meal still lifes in Holland and Flanders from...

The Mauritshuis is delighted to announce the launch of The Goldfinch, A Bird’s Eye View. This website focusses entirely on the renowned painting The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius. The user can explore a...

The exhibition At Home in Holland: Vermeer and his Contemporaries from the British Royal Collection was a success, attracting 120,000 visitors. The exhibition, visited by Her Royal Highness The Duchess...