Sadly in the early morning of Monday 13 February 2023 a selection of Chinese ceramics were stolen from the Princessehof in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. The objects were part of an installation dedicated to the Chinese New Year in the exhibition Feest! (Celebrate!). As far as known eleven pieces of ceramics were stolen. Seven were left …
In 2015 the royal castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria were officially registered with the World Heritage Centre in Paris on the German tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Bavarian Palace Department is to submit the nomination dossier and management plan to the UNESCO Commission for review on 1 …
At the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 1 December 2022 til 29 May 2023 the exhibition Koninklijk borduren – verhalen en vakmanschap (Royal embroidery – stitches and stories) can be seen. It is a one-off chance to see both the historical and new curtains for the Chinese Room of Palace Huis ten Bosch in …
July 2022 I visited a wonderful exhibition about the Danish Royal Yacht Dannebrog at the Maritime Museum of Denmark in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark. On 2 February 2023 Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark opened a revised and expanded presentation of the exhibition at the Koldinghus in Kolding, Denmark: Kongeskibet Dannebrog (The Royal Yacht Dannebrog). The exhibition …
One of the royal exhibitions to go at the moment is the exhibition The century of Juliana, a queen and her ideals at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2023 it is 75 years ago that Juliana succeeded to the throne and became Queen of the Netherlands. According to the church the exhibition …
1. Let’s start at the beginning. You’re searching for information about a place you would like to visit and there is hardly anything to find or it takes a lot of time. One of the irritations I want to take away with this site is, to help finding the royal and noble palaces and castles …
On 29 January 2023 the new exhibition “Craftsmanship at the Royal Palace – 200 years of creations” opens at Queen Sonja Art Stable in Oslo, that is located in the former Royal Stables. The exhibition can be visited until 17 September 2023. On display is a selection of beautiful handcrafted objects from the Norwegian Royal …
Since early 17th century it has been a tradition to daily hoist the Danish flag, called Dannebrog, at sunrise at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark, and lower the flag at sunset. At the start of the new year 2023 the palaces and culture agency of Denmark, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen, scrapped this practice. They said …
The ancestral seat of the Prussian Royal House and of the Hohenzollern Princes, Burg Hohenzollern, since December 2022 is better accessible. During the renovation of the castle walls also an elevator was added. Next to the Adlertor, the entrance gate to the castle, a plateau was added and a 25 metres high elevator shaft. Now …
The latest royal palace that will turn into a museum is Tatoi, Greece, that faces Mount Parnitha and is surrounded by forests. The estate is only 27 kilometres off the city centre of Athens, the capital of Greece. In January 2023 the minister of Culture of Greece, Lina Mendoni, confirmed in an interview with Real …
