Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
Also known as Mauritshuis
1641
Neoclassical
building
The Mauritshuis at Korte Vijverberg 8 in The Hague is a Dutch classicist city palace built between 1636 and 1644 by Jacob van Campen, assisted by Pieter Post on the interiors, for Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen while he was…
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- 1641
Jacob van Campen
- 1704-1718
A fire in 1704 left only the outer walls of the Mauritshuis standing. The interior was rebuilt and refitted by 1718 with Louis XIV-style decoration, including the surviving Golden Room, so much of the present interior reflects this…
- 1820-1822
The Dutch state bought the house in 1820 and converted it into a museum, opening it as the Royal Picture Gallery and Royal Cabinet of Rarities in 1822, with the seventeenth-century rooms turned over to displaying the national collection.
- 1982-1987
A large-scale restoration and partial expansion adapted the building to heavier museum use, reinforcing structure and updating climate and visitor systems while keeping the seventeenth-century plan intact.
- 2012-2014
Hans van Heeswijk Architects connected the seventeenth-century Mauritshuis to the corner building at Plein 26, owned by Sociëteit De Witte, through an underground foyer with exhibition rooms, offices, library, brasserie, and an Art…
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