Extended until 5 January 2025! Rembrandt, the photographer
From 22 June 2024 to 5 January 2025, more than 200 masterful etchings from the collection of Rembrandt collector Jaap Mulders will fill our empty museum. In addition to Rembrandt’s masterful technique, the exhibition also highlights his almost photographic compositions. Rembrandt had an eye for the perfect picture like no other artist of his time: like a photographer avant la lettre.
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Upcoming TIME in FASHION
The exhibition ‘TIME in FASHION’ shows how time touches fashion – and how fashion touches time. From 1 February to 1 June 2025, three designers will expose different layers of time in their artistic designs in the Westfries Museum in Hoorn. From disposable fashion to 17th-century elite language in clothing. With designs by fashion designer Sepehr Maghsoudi, costume designer Rien Bekkers and paper artist Asya Kozina from Ukraine. Tickets available from January 2025.
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Discover the story of Hoorn In the Statenpoort
Our museum is closed for a long period of time due to extensive restoration, renovation and renewal. However, we will continue to tell the story of the history of Hoorn and West Friesland. Visit us at our temporary Museum location in the Statenpoort on Nieuwstraat. We have transformed the Aldermen’s Hall of this former Hoorn Town Hall into a small theatre. There you will experience the multimedia show ‘Discover the story of Hoorn’: the inspiring starting point for discovering the city. Then walk through Hoorn’s monumental wealth and history with the accompanying pod walk or walking guide. After all, history is in the streets in Hoorn…
Only want to do the city walk? Buy and download the podwalks here.
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Online exhibition Battle of the Zuiderzee
In 2023, it will be exactly 450 years since the Battle of the Zuiderzee took place. Hoorn freed itself from the Spaniards through this epic naval battle, an event that was a turning point in Dutch history. Because the free trade via the Zuiderzee made Hoorn and the other West Frisian cities very prosperous. And Hoorn and the region contributed to world history for a while. In 2023, Hoorn – and thus also the Westfries Museum – will celebrate the anniversary of this historic event. And we celebrate the importance of freedom then and now.
Online exhibition Pala – Nutmeg tales of Banda
How far does the echo of a historical event reach? Far, as the case of the 1621 Banda massacre proves. More than 400 years on, the horrific events on the nutmeg islands still hold people’s attention. On Banda, in Indonesia and in the Netherlands. And today perhaps more than ever before. That was the reason for our museum in 2021 to develop an online exhibition during the covid closure. ‘Pala – Nutmeg tales of Banda’ highlights the rich history and culture of the Banda Islands and complements the events of 1621 with new and critical perspectives. This many-voiced exhibition provides room for the Bandanese story and the viewpoints of the Moluccan community in the Netherlands.
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