Tourist attractions The Hague

The Hague's largest museum occupies an elegant residence, and is named after the man who financed its building, Prince John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen. It was built around 1640 in the purest classical style to designs by J. van Campen. The Mauritshuis ..

The municipal museum was built in 1935 by Berlage. Its reinforced concrete structure is faced with yellow bricks. A gallery leads to the museum's rooms, where the displays and natural lighting coalesce perfectly. The collections are divided into six ..

The name of this miniaturised town is a tribute to George Maduro, an officer who was deported to Dachau then killed in 1945. The creation of Madurodam dates back to 1952. The models, built on a scale of 1: 25, bring together Holland's most typical bu..

This museum is laid out around a pavilion built for Queen Wilhelmina in 1826. It contains contemporary sculptures collected by the Scholten-Miltenburgs from all over the world (Appel, Koenig, Zijlstra, Tajiri, Otto, Man Ray, Mitoraj), encompassing a ..

Seven permanent exhibitions illustrate in a lively and interactive way the richness and complexity of nature: the Prehistoric Parade, the Theatre of Nature, the Earth and Life exhibitions, the Ecosystems room, the Visions exhibition on Nature and the..

As well as a particularly interesting Egyptology section , this museum has collections of antiquities (Near-East, Greece and Rome) as well as an archaeology section dedicated to the Netherlands. You can see the Temple of Isis of Taffeh from the Au..

This museum, renowned for its rich collections dedicated to non-Western civilisations, displays items from many sources: Africa, the Arctic, Indonesia, Chin, Japan, Korea, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. It hosts exhibitions and its surrounding garde..

In the old cloth market hall, this museum of decorative arts (furniture, silverwork, enamels, glass, gold and silversmith's work, pottery tiles) also has an attractive painting section. The entire history of Leiden revisited: the textile industry ..

This gallery of paintings occupies the second floor of the house beside the Prison Gate. Started in 1773 and reflecting the taste of William V, the collection is mostly made up of 17th Century landscapes. Bequeathed to the state in 1815 by William I,..

Abraham Bredius (1855-1946), art historian and former director of the Mauritshuis, bequeathed his collection of paintings to the city. Installed in a fine town house of 1757, the museum is named after him and displays some of the collection. Amongst ..

This place is democratic Holland's centre of political process. The Stathouder gate leads into the interior courtyard (Binnenhof), in the middle of which stands the Chamber of the Knights, or Ridderzaal. The buildings built all around, of different p..

Queen Emma’s former palace displays the works of artist Maurits Cornelius Escher (1898-1972). Using either tangible figures (fish, birds, reptiles, humans) or more artificial forms (unravelled knots, three-dimensional cross-sections, contrasts betwee..

The shaded side avenues of the Lange Voorhout - their broad lawns brightened by crocuses in the springtime - are flanked by the finest residences in the Hague, most of them occupied by embassies. In the summer a large antiques fair brings life to the..

This "panorama", a device that was very fashionable a century ago, shows Scheveningen in 1881. The work is a collaboration between Hendrik Willem Mesdag and other artists of the Hague school. Painted in a style that is in the purest tradi..

This museum of 19th Century painting occupies Mesdag's home and the building he had constructed in 1887 to house his rich collections of artworks. The painter bequeathed all of it to the state in 1903, and thanks to this museum the mid 19th Century s..

This 19C residence houses a magnificent collection of Dutch and foreign earthenware tiles dating from the 16C to the 19C. Notice, especially, in the monumental staircase, a naval battle between the French, the English and the Dutch. You will also dis..

Initially a women's convent, these late Gothic buildings (C15-16C) became the residence of William the Silent in 1572, and he was assassinated there in 1584. In the 17C, the palace was converted into a cloth market. At the present time, it houses a m..

Formerly the St. Catherine's Gate, from the walls encircling the town, this is the only gate that survives. It is a handsome dark brick structure dating back to C15 and 16C, and it is flanked by two fine octagonal turrets. You will have an attractive..

This Gothic church (1381) has a brick bell-tower in front of it, the bells of which were cast by Hemony. The church houses the vault tomb of the princes of the House of Orange. Inside, you will notice the coloured windows of the transept and the wide..

Here, this canal, shaded by lime trees, its hump-backed bridges and its elegant façades go to make up an exquisite scene. Notice, at no. 39, the pretty East India Company house, the Renaissance façade (around 1520) of the Delfland Regional Waterways ..