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Also known as Maurice House, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, Royal Picture Gallery of the Netherlands

The Mauritshuis (; ; ) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. Originally, the 17th-century building was the residence of Count John Maurice of Nassau. The building is now the property of the government of the Netherlands and is listed in the top 100 Dutch heritage sites.

Key facts

Museum.name
Mauritshuis
Museum.logo
150px
Museum.image
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Museum.image_upright
1.15
Museum.caption
Mauritshuis in 2005
Museum.map_type
Netherlands South Holland
Museum.map_size
250
Museum.map_caption
Location in South Holland in the Netherlands
Museum.established
1822
Museum.location
Plein 29The Hague, Netherlands
Museum.type
Art museum
Museum.collection_size
854 objects
Museum.visitors
416,334 (2018)
Museum.director
Martine Gosselink
Museum.president
Ila Kasem
Museum.owner
Dutch state

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Controversy over the colonial past of Prince Maurice
  • Collection
  • Selected exhibits
  • Administration
  • Visitors
  • References
  • External links

The Mauritshuis (; ; ) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. Originally, the 17th-century building was the residence of Count John Maurice of Nassau. The building is now the property of the government of the Netherlands and is listed in the top 100 Dutch heritage sites.

== History == thumb|left|200px|The Mauritshuis in 1825

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mauritshuis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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