Mauritshuis at home

Online workshops and more

Follow our online courses and get started at home! Our enthusiastic teachers take you step by step in short videos. Before you know it, you'll have your own homemade masterpiece.
Discover our online courses below

Smartphone photography workshop

Make the best photos at home

Have you always wondered how to make the best photo of that beautiful bouquet on your coffee table? Mauritshuis museumteacher Vera tells more about the techniques of the old masters and gives you the tools to get started with smartphone-photography at home. Join our online workshop and show your best photography skills!

Smartphone photography

Part 1 - Introduction

Part 2 - View existing light

Part 3 - Assignment: Find existing light

Part 4 - Looking at unusual use of light

Part 5 - Assignment: manipulating light.

Part 6 - Different framing, different story.

Part 7 - Assignment: Cropping, a question of feeling.

Part 8 - Consider perspective

Part 9 - Assignment: ‘viewed differently’

Deel 10 - Inspired, but really differents

Workshop drawing and painting

Make your own masterpiece at home

Have you always wondered how to make the best drawing or painting? Mauritshuis museumteacher Sylvia tells more about the techniques (perspective, shape, composition, lines, measurements etc.) of the old masters and gives you the tools to get started with painting at home. Join our online workshop and share your artworks!

Workshop drawing and painting

Part 1 - Introduction

Part 1.1 - Landscapes

Part 1.2 - Assignment: Make your own paint

Part 1.3 - Assignment: Paint a landscape

Part 2.1 - Shapes

Part 2.2 - Look

Deel 2.3 - Sketch

Deel 2.4 - Modern artwork

Deel 3.1 - Composition

Deel 3.2 - Art card

Deel 4.1 - Museum halls

Deel 4.2 - Final assignment

Spot the differences

Originally we created this 'Spot the differences' assignment for our Children’s activities page. However, since we enjoyed this exercise so much ourselves, we've decided to create a slightly more difficult version for you as well.

You'll find three of our highlights below, in two different versions. The first one is the assignment, the second the original painting. Can you spot the five differences in each painting?

The assignment: Spot the five differences in Het aardse paradijs met de zondeval van Adam en Eva van Jan Brueghel de Oude en Peter Paul Rubens
The original:
The assignment: Spot the five differences in Soo voer gesongen soo na gepepen van Jan Steen
The original:
The assignment: Spot the five differences inApelles Painting Campaspe by Willem van Haecht
The original: