Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

The Gemeentemuseum is the Municipal Museum of The Hague and is north of the city center, in the garden district Duinoord, near the Peace Palace.

Importance

On the edge of Zorgvliet park is the museum building, which was built to a design by Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) 1935. The museum contains exhibits the city's history, the visual arts of the 19th and 20th centuries, numerous arts and crafts items such as ceramics, silver and furniture, as well as a fashion gallery with a collection of over 40,000 historic and contemporary clothing, accessories and jewelry.

The collection of modern art includes works by well-known foreign artists such as Edgar Degas, Markus Liipertz, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Daniel Richter, Egon Schiele, Frank Stella and Dutch artists like Pyke Koch, Piet Mondrian, Charley Toorop and Jan Toorop.

The first exhibition of American Pop Art on European soil took place in 1964 at the Gemeentemuseum. At the exhibition, titled New Realists & Pop Art works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, but also by many European artists were seen.

The important collection of traditional and electronic musical instruments was transferred to the Paleis Lange Voorhout in 2003 in the city center.

With nearly 300 paintings from all periods of Piet Mondrian, the Gemeentemuseum has the largest collection of this artist worldwide. It consists in large part of a legacy of the Dutch art collector Salomon B. Slijper. Since 1998 belongs to the last, unfinished paintings of Mondrian, Victory Boogie Woogie, for the museum's collection. An exhibition entitled Mondrian & De Stijl has been running since September 2011 to January 2014.