18 April 2023 – 7 January 2024 – A tiny microscope was all he needed to uncover an entirely new world, a world nobody had seen before. From 18 April 2023, National Museum Boerhaave revisits a world first discovered by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 350 years ago. The amazing microworld becomes visible in the special temporary exhibition Unimaginable. How Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope changed the […]

22 April 2023 – 30 July 2023 – Showcasing the stories that matter with award-winning photography from the 66th annual World Press Photo Contest. The annual exhibition presents the results of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest, the annual exhibition showcases the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year, selected by an independent jury.

16 April 2023 – 1 October 2023 – Nearly three thousand Moluccan men, women and children ended up in Drenthe in 1951. They live spread over seven barrack camps and sometimes hardly know each other at first. What the future brings is unclear.

19 November 2022 – 7 May 2023 – Every book designed by Irma Boom is unique: from one without ink to another consisting only of book covers. More than 30 of her books are on display alongside works of art from our collection – art that has inspired her and art for which she feels a strong affinity.

18 February 2023 – 3 September 2023 – Jan Veth was a versatile man. He was one of the most esteemed portrait painters and most respected art critics of his time. He entered the heart of the Dutch art world around 1900. Veth painted countless portraits and was a gifted printmaker. He wrote about the visual arts, he was a poet and a […]

8 March 2023 – 3 March 2024 –