Updated: 7 April 2025 Country Place & Country Exhibition Dates Austria Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna Prunk & Prägung –Die Kaiser und ihre Hofkünstler 13 February 2024 – 26 October 2025 Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, Vienna Wunder und Wissenschaft. Porzellan und Sammellust im barocken Wien 30 January 2025-30 March 2025 Möbelmuseum, Vienna Japanisches Porzellan am Kaiserhof in …
Amsterdam this year celebrates its 750th anniversary. From 22 March 2025 to 2 November 2025 therefore, the public will be able to have a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It will be allowed to climb the 216 steps – 40 metres – to the roof of the New Church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From the platform, that has …
While at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague for Dior, don’t forget to have a look at the exhibition Grand Dessert – De geschiedenis van het toetje (Grand Dessert – The history of the dessert) that is on display from 23 November 2024 to 6 April 2025. Visitors dive into the delicious world of desserts, presented …
Fashion and royal families are inextricably linked. The royal ladies sometimes wear exquisite designs by the most famous designers in the world. In the year 2019 I saw the exhibition Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams at the V&A Museum in London, focussing on Diors relationship with the United Kingdom. One of the highlights was the …
On 14 September 2024 the exhibition “Ja, ik wil!” (Yes, I do!) opened its doors at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. The major exhibition shows around 60 Dutch wedding dresses from the 18th century to the present day. The oldest dress is from 1782, and comes from the collection of the museum itself. …
In the night of 24 to 25 January 2025 four masterpieces from the exhibition “Dacia – Rijk van goud en zilver” (Dacia – Empire of Gold and Silver) were stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen, The Netherlands. The Helmet of Coțofenești from around 450 BC and three royal bracelets from Sarmizegetusa Regia from around …
In 1985 the American visual artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – a leading figure in the pop art movement – published the serie “Reigning Queens”, saying: “Everybody knows that I’m a queen, but the prints are of royal ones and stuff.” Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, purchased a limited “Royal Edition” of the series, …
Updated: 16 December 2024 Country Place & Country Exhibition Dates Australia The Australian Museum, Sydney Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs 18 November 2023 – 19 May 2024 Austria Lower Belvedere, Vienna Das Belvedere. 300 Jahre Ort der Kunst 2 December 2022 – 7 January 2024 Theatermuseum, Vienna Showbiz made in Vienna …
The Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden has a few interesting exhibitions this year. At the end of October 2024 the exhibition Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China is to be expected. But first, from 2 March 2024 to 1 September 2024 the museum shows the exhibition Porcelain Fever: the white gold of Augustus …
That I haven’t added much to this blog in the past year, isn’t because I didn’t visit noble and royal castles and palaces. Somehow the year was filled with all kind of events, travels and personal celebrations. I didn’t manage to find much time for my blogs. The year started slowly, and it wasn’t until …
