A Special Collection from Leiden University. The oldest known image of the camera obscura principle (1545), the original camera belonging to painter George Hendrik Breitner, daguerreotypes over 150 years old: Leiden University’s photographic collection is unique in many ways. It is both the oldest and the largest museological photography collection in the country, telling the whole story of the emergence and development of photography.

Matisse to Malevich - Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage: from 6 March – 17 September 2010.  Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other contemporaries of theirs will be seen in a magnificent display from 6 March 2010 to 17 September 2010 at the Hermitage Amsterdam in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of modern art from the Hermitage. For this exhibition about 75 paintings have been selected from the Hermitage St.- Petersburg, which has one of the world’s finest collections of French painting of the early twentieth century.

Museums are visible in a Google Search Map. Type your seach in the seach-box in the right corner of the map. The search result will be visible on the Google Map. Searching a museum in a specific town. Type for example: museum Maastricht.............

Maastricht can rightfully claim to be one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. The city is a living and breathing outdoor museum, and the streets are full of reminders that the city once served as a Roman post, a city of pilgrimage, a medieval fortified city, and one of the first centres of the Dutch industrial revolution.
Maastricht is a city with a character all its own, and this is particularly evident in the specific characteristics of the various districts and neighbourhoods.

This fall, the Kunsthal Rotterdam will mount a major exhibition on American paintings from the early 1900s. After well over twenty years, works by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) will be on view in Holland once again. Kunsthal Rotterdam:
26 September 2009 to 17 January 2010