Professional Private Tours
Private Guided Art Tours
Art Tours cover the Golden Age with specific unique opportunities to enjoy local Masters like Mesdag as well as the Dutch Grand Masters like Vermeer and Rembrandt.
The Mauritshuis is one of the most special Dutch Museums in Holland, and is where the Girl with the Pearl Earing can be seen. The 2003 film ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ helped make one of it’s paintings world famous but it contains so many more quality pieces.
Rembrandt’s ‘The anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp’, Vermeer’s ‘View of Delft’ and Jan Steen’s ‘The way you hear it, is the way you sing it’ – a hilarious 17th Century comment on bringing up children badly – are must-sees plus works by Hans Holbein, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Also the Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius is a real masterpiece and we have all the story behind this impecable bird.
The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has more modern art. With a permanent collection featuring Mondriaan, Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Gogh and Monet, there exhibitions are always world beaters. The Escher in The Palace museum also warrants a visit, paying tribute to the works of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher.
If we have time, the car-free city of Delft – famous for its pottery and birthplace of Vermeer – is a quick tram ride away and gives access to the Royal Delft Blue Factory (I am an Official Guide with substantial concession rates) and the Vermeer Centre of course.
Finally a trip to The Hague would never be the same without the amazing experience of the Panorama Mesdag and we have all the story behind this unbelievable and impossible to describe 3D Virtual Reality from 1880!!!