Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
About this tour
A day of modern and contemporary art around The Hague, built around one exhibition. From 12 September 2026 to 7 March 2027 Museum Voorlinden celebrates its tenth anniversary with Celebrating the Icons of Art, and for the first time since it opened in 2016 the whole building has been rebuilt from the inside for a single show. Contemporary icons from the collection hang beside the 20th century works that made them possible, Kusama and Monet, Lichtenstein and Léger, Bourgeois, Bacon, Hockney, Matisse, Miró, Richter, Riley and Ron Mueck, all in one house, all at once, plus a new work by Martin Creed dated 2026 to keep the conversation in the present tense. The museum sits on a country estate where the polder gives way to the dunes, twenty minutes from The Hague, with galleries lit by the sky over the North Sea. The day adds the two other reasons to cross the country for modern art in The Hague, the largest Mondrian collection in the world at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and the beach of 1881 painted in the round at Panorama Mesdag, with a short walk through the political heart of the country in between.
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin, 2009, Museum Voorlinden. Photo Antoine van Kaam
Roy Lichtenstein, M-Maybe (A Girl's Picture), 1965, Museum Ludwig
The day
Meet the Storykeeper in the hotel lobby and drive to Wassenaar, about 45 minutes from Amsterdam, to arrive at Voorlinden as the doors open and the light is still low. Walk the anniversary exhibition with the Storykeeper, from Monet's water lilies to Kusama's pumpkin in the same room, through Bridget Riley beside the century that invented abstraction and Lichtenstein's M-Maybe in a house full of the painters it borrowed from. Then the permanent icons of the estate, Leandro Erlich's Swimming Pool, seen from the dry bottom looking up through a few centimetres of water, Ron Mueck's Couple under an Umbrella, Richard Serra's Open Ended and James Turrell's Skyspace, a room with a hole in the ceiling and nothing else, which turns out to be enough. Lunch at the estate restaurant, with the gardens outside (not included).
Leandro Erlich, Swimming Pool, Museum Voorlinden
Ron Mueck, Boy, 1999, ARoS Collection. Photo Mads Smidstrup
Drive into The Hague for a short walk around the Binnenhof and the Hofvijver, the medieval court where the oldest working parliament in Europe still sits, past Noordeinde Palace, where the King goes to work, and along the Lange Voorhout to the Plein, with a coffee on the way.
Continue to Panorama Mesdag. In 1881 Hendrik Willem Mesdag painted Scheveningen beach on a canvas 14 metres high and 120 metres around, viewed from a dune in the centre of the room, the oldest panorama in the world still in its original building and the first immersive artwork in the Netherlands, a century before the word existed.
Joan Miró, Bleu I, II, III, 1961, Centre Pompidou
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Art Deco entrance by Berlage
End at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the yellow brick museum H.P. Berlage designed in 1935, and walk the Mondrian rooms with the Storykeeper, from the early windmills and trees to Victory Boogie Woogie, the last canvas, left unfinished in New York in 1944. The line from Mondrian's grid to Riley's stripes and Kusama's dots closes the loop of the day. Return to Amsterdam in the early evening.
Piet Mondrian, Victory Boogie Woogie, Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Optional, from the 17th century to modern art in a day
Until 17 January 2027 the Mauritshuis can replace the Kunstmuseum, with timed tickets for Masterpieces from Madrid, 25 works from the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza including El Greco's Annunciation, and Girl with a Pearl Earring in her own room. El Greco in the afternoon, Kusama and Monet in the morning, one day.
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Inclusions
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