Vision

Museum Voorlinden connects people, art, nature and architecture.

Mission

Museum Voorlinden collects, presents, keeps, manages, conserves, restores and publishes modern and contemporary art, both on its own premises and elsewhere. At museum Voorlinden, modern and contemporary art take on new meaning for a broad-based national and international audience. The museum envisages to be a meeting place where people like to sojourn. Voorlinden wants to be an oasis of tranquility in the hectic city where people can go marvel and be surprised. The total experience of art, nature and architecture is key in the way of presenting and approaching visitors.

The Royal Cabinet of Paintings: The Mauritshuis is a National Museum in the center of The Hague. In the museum you can find paintings from the Golden Age (17th century) and some from the 18th century. The old museum displays more than 800 paintings. The core of the collection is made up of works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Steen and Frans Hals.

The Ooievaart organizes tours through the city’s canals. We leave open boats to see the beauty that The Hague has to offer from the water. During this half hour experience a guide tells many interesting facts while skipper skillfully and safely maneuver through the tight corners. The tour starts at the Bierkade, and performs among other along the Schilderswijk, the courtyards of the order and case, Hague Chinatown and the Palace Gardens in the Royal Stables. Then we sail through the Mauritskade past several Jugendstil Pawns Buurtschap 2005 to the new Hague center with the ministries and the spectacular skyline. A special, varied trip that is well worth the effort.