All applied art museums to visit in South Holland

Discover the beauty of functional art at 17 applied art museums in South Holland. These museums highlight the intersection of art and utility, showcasing pieces that are both beautiful and practical.

Are you interested in the intersection of art and craftsmanship? These are the applied art museums you should visit in South Holland:

  1. Kunstmuseum Den Haag1

    Kunstmuseum Den Haag

     The Hague
    Kunstmuseum Den Haag (formerly known as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) is a museum with a diverse collections of modern art, applied art, musical instruments and fashion. It owns the largest collection of works by Piet Mondrian and is the centre of the Hague School, owning works by Israel, Jongkind, Maris
  2. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen2

    Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

     Rotterdam
    A visit to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is a journey through the history of art. Dutch and European masterpieces provide a comprehensive survey of art from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century, from Bosch, Rembrandt and Van Gogh to Dalí and Dutch Design.
  3. Kijk-kubus3

    Kijk-kubus

     Rotterdam
    The Kijk-kubus is the fully decorated museum house of the ‘Blaakse Bos’. The Kijk-Kubus is part of the cube houses that were built and designed by architect Piet Blom in the period 1982 – 1984. The interior illustrates how people live in these cube houses. Exhibition of models, photographs and multi
  4. Museum De Lakenhal4

    Museum De Lakenhal

     Leiden
    Museum De Lakenhal is the municipality museum of Leiden, that is housed in Leiden’s old cloth hall from 1640. It is the museum of arts, crafts and history of Leiden. The museum covers the history of Leiden from Leiden’s relief in 1574. Important in the museum are works by old masters such as Rembran
  5. De Mesdag Collectie5

    De Mesdag Collectie

     The Hague
    Museum De Mesdag Collectie is housed in the old house of the Dutch painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag. The museum exhibits paintings by French and Dutch masters of the 19th century, which were collected by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife Sientje Mesdag-Van Houten. To decorate the house and the museum,
  6. Van Gijn House6

    Van Gijn House

     Dordrecht
    The museum is the house of the banker and collector Simon van Gijn who lived there from 1864 until his death in 1922. Van Gijn left the house and most of his collections to the Old Dordrecht Society. His wish was for the collections to be made publicly accessible and for his home to be converted int
  7. Nieuwe Instituut7

    Nieuwe Instituut

     Rotterdam
    Nieuwe Instituut is the Netherlands’ national museum for architecture, design and digital culture. Located in the city of architecture, Rotterdam, in the Museum Park with Kunsthal Rotterdam and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen as neighbours, the Nieuwe Instituut has various exhibition spaces, a museum s
  8. Museum Gouda8

    Museum Gouda

     Gouda
    Museum Gouda recounts the history of this wonderful city. You will see, among other things, unique sixteenth century altarpieces, seventeenth century civic guard group portraits and Gouda pottery, which is famous all over the world. The museum is located in an old hospital, the Catharina Gasthuis. T
  9. Japan Museum SieboldHuis9

    Japan Museum SieboldHuis

     Leiden
    The Siebold House is housed in a monumental building that used to be used as the district court. The museum’s collection consists of objects that were collected by Philipp Franz von Siebold in the period 1823 – 1829 during his stay in the Dutch trading post Dejima. Siebold collected more than 25,000
  10. Nationaal Glasmuseum10

    Nationaal Glasmuseum

     Leerdam
    The Nationaal Glasmuseum is housed in two villas that are connected with each other by covered footbridges. The collection of the museum consists of glass objects, both ornamental and normal glass. In addition to the permanent exhibition the museum also organises temporary exhibitions. In the ‘glasb
  11. Sonneveld House11

    Sonneveld House

     Rotterdam
    Sonneveld House Museum, situated on the edge of Museumpark in Rotterdam, is one of the best-preserved homes built in the Dutch Functionalist style. It was designed in the 1930s by architecture office Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, renowned for the Van Nelle Factory and Feyenoord Stadium. They also work
  12. Museum Noordwijk12

    Museum Noordwijk

     Noordwijk
    Museum Noordwijk is housed in a four hundred year old farmhouse. It is a museum on art, applied art and the history of Noordwijk. The collection includes Noordwijk costumes and paintings. The museum also has a large collection of ceramics made by porcelain factory ‘De Kroon’, including works by Henr
  13. Dutch Silver Museum13

    Dutch Silver Museum

     Schoonhoven
    The Nederlands Zilvermuseum presents an overview of the history of Dutch silver. The collection covers a period from 1600 to the present. The museum is focussed on historical and contemporary silver objects, history, certification marks, technology and jewellery from the twenties. The museum owns th
  14. Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet14

    Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet

     Haastrecht
    Museum Bisdom van Vliet is a ‘house museum’. The authentic decoration from the last quarter of the nineteenth century is still present in the house. The collection consists of various objects that can be found in similar mansions, such as paintings, furniture, glassware, silver objects, clocks and b
  15. Belasting & Douane Museum15

    Belasting & Douane Museum

     Rotterdam
    The Belasting & Douane Museum (Tax & Customs Museum) is housed in two historic houses. It illustrates the history of tax and customs in the Netherlands. The diverse collection includes paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, uniforms, glassware, silver objects, games, smuggling objects and measuri
  16. Royal Delft16

    Royal Delft

     Delft
    Did you know that the iconic Delftware is actually painted with black? While baking in the oven, the black changes to the familiar, intense blue color. Delft Blue is still made by hand in a traditional way at Royal Delft. Here you can see our painters and craftsmen at work in the factory. In the mus
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    Speldjesmuseum Pin Art Gallery

     Klaaswaal
    The Pin Museum Pin Art Gallery displays a collection of pins, pins, medals and other emblems.