Berlage's architecture
Low corridors opening into top-lit halls.
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The Fotomuseum Den Haag is part of the Kunstmuseum complex — the building designed by the architect Hendrik Berlage and completed in 1935, his last and best-known work. The building itself rewards attention: yellow brick and low corridors that open suddenly into high top-lit halls, with every detail down to the door handles designed by Berlage. The idea is that the architecture guides the visitor by rhythm rather than by signs. The photography wing presents temporary exhibitions changing several times a year, ranging across documentary, photojournalism, portraiture and contemporary experiment, Dutch and international. Directly beside it is KM21 for contemporary art — and the ticket usually covers the whole complex including the main art museum with its large Mondrian holdings, the best thing in The Hague artistically.
Low corridors opening into top-lit halls.
Documentary, journalism, portraiture and experiment.
Stadhouderslaan 43, 2517 The Hague
KM21 Contemporary ArtKM21 is the contemporary art space within The Hague's Kunstmuseum complex, known1 minute walk4.3
Kunstmuseum Den HaagEarth's largest Mondrian holding — three hundred works closing with Victory Boog1 minute walk4.5
The OmniversumThe Omniversum is a dome cinema in The Hague's museum quarter, among the first o3 minutes walk4.2
The MuseonThe Museon is a museum about people, the earth and science, designed from the gr3 minutes walk4.1
Park SorghvlietSorghvliet is a historic park between central The Hague and Scheveningen, and am9 minutes walk4.5The Hague's main art museum, and its greatest holding is the largest collection of Piet Mondrian in the world — over three hundred works covering his whole path from early realistic landscapes to the geometric grid in red, blue and yellow he became known for, including his last unfinished painting. Seeing that transformation in sequence in one room explains abstraction in a way no single painting can.