Frans Hals Museum

It's funny that most people visit museums while they're on a trip and not while they're at home. I don't go to museums in the Netherlands a lot either but a little while ago, i saw the Kremer family on tv and when they told about their private collection, i decided i had to go see it. The Kremer collection is a collection of about 50 paintings and drawings from old Dutch masters. 4 of those are of Rembrandt. Usually, this private collection is closed for public but the Kremer family decided to expose their collection in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. So we went to this beautiful city to see it and we were not dissapointed by what we saw. The collection is really beautiful, with landscapes, portrets and genrepaintings. Not only the collection is great but also the building of the museum is beautiful. An old Dutch building with original tiles on the walls and a beautiful courtyard. The paintings of Frans Hals in the museum are also worth a visit. In this museum you can really feel an old Dutch atmosphere. I really loved this visit!

here is shown the ard of painter Frans Hals!

Internationally famous as a museum of the Dutch Golden Age, the Frans Hals Museum is situated in a picturesque 17th-century building at Groot Heiligland, where hundreds of paintings and craft objects are on alternating display. You can still feel the atmosphere of all those years ago.

The collection has been gradually built up by the city of Haarlem. The Prinsenhof – part of the town hall – actually boasted works of art as early as the 16th century. In the centuries that followed the collection was further enhanced with purchased, loaned, donated and commissioned works. In 1862 a Stedelijk Museum (civic museum) was officially opened in the town hall. It had 123 paintings and a catalogue. Eventually, when lack of space forced the museum to move elsewhere, a former Old Men’s Home at Groot Heiligland was made ready to accommodate it. The ‘Frans Hals Museum’ was opened there in 1913.

For more info look at het website!