Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

The Municipal Museum (Dutch: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) is an art museum, located in The Hague, Netherlands.

The museum, built 1931–1935, was designed by the Dutch architect H.P. Berlage. It is renowned for its large Mondrian collection, the largest in the world. His last work, Victory Boogie-Woogie, is on display here.

GEM (museum for contemporary art) and Fotomuseum Den Haag (The Hague museum for photography) are part of the Gemeentemuseum, though not housed in the same building and with a separate entrance fee.

Collection

Modern art

Jürgen Partenheimer, Weltachse V, installation Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 1999

The museum's collection of modern art includes works by international artists (Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Frank Stella and many others) and Dutch artists (Charlotte Dumas, Pyke Koch, Piet Mondriaan, Charley Toorop, Jan Toorop, Hans Wilschut and many others.

Print Room

The museum has a collection of 19th and 20th century prints, posters and drawings, containing around 50,000 items. It comprises of works by Dutch artists such as Co Westerik and Jan Toorop, as well as works by Rodolphe Bresdin, Ingres, Paul Klee, Toulouse Lautrec, Odilon Redon and others. A selection is on view in the print room.

Fashion

The collection of fashion items, accessories, jewellery, drawings and prints includes historical items as well as modern ones by designers such as Gabrielle Chanel, Frank Govers and Yoshiki Hishinuma. For reasons of conservation items are only shown at temporary exhibitions.

Music

The music collection includes a large collection of musical instruments and a music library, with an emphasis on European music.

External links

• Official website