The International Friends of the Mauritshuis are delighted to invite you to join and your guests to participate in a workshop where you can try your hand at seventeenth-century style writing and printing.
Formerly called the Meermanno Museum and now the world’s oldest book museum, the beautiful building on Prinsessegracht 30 was originally home to Johann Meermann (1751-1815), a renowned collector of books, paintings and rare manuscripts. His younger cousin, Baron Van Westreenen van Tiellandt, developed the collection further and, on his death, the house with its magnificent collection of books dating back to the sixth century, was bequeathed to the state and became a museum.
