Frans Hals Museum

Previous exhibitions & other events since 1999

• Symposium A fresh look at Frans Hals (8 April 2013)
• ‘The Dutch Michelangelo’ Cornelis van Haarlem (1562–1638) (29 September 2012-20 January 2013)
• Celebrating in the Golden Age (11 November 2011-6 May 2012)
• Conversation Piece III: John Currin (1962) meets Cornelis van Haarlem (1562 – 1628) (7 October 2011-8 January 2012)
• A Magnificent Gesture (15 April-30 October 2011)
• Jan Nagel: a sixteenth-century masterpainter (22 April-30 October 2011)
• A closer look: an exhibition on the restoration of five paintings at the Frans Hals Museum (5 November 2010-10 April 2011)
• Judith Leyster: the first woman to become a master painter (19 December 2009-9 May 2010)
• Rembrandt, a childhood dream: the Kremer Collection (14 February-21 June 2009)
• Frans Hals and the Haarlem masters of the Golden Age (13 February-7 June 2009)
• Haarlem: the cradle of the Golden Age (11 October 2008-1 February 2009)
• The "Dirck Hals Project": a technical investigation of seven paintings in the Frans Hals Museum (2 July-5 October 2008)
• The music of Haarlem in the Golden Age (2 July-5 October 2008)
• Navigator: Thomas Eggerer in conversation with Jacob van Ruisdael and Pieter Saenredam (4 July-28 September 2008)
• It’s all in the genes: four painters from one family,Dirck, Jan, Joseph and Salomon de Bray (2 February-22 June 2008)
• Presentation Pair of panels: research and restoration of two paintings by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (28 September 2007-6 January 2008)
• Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1622-83): in southern light (16 December 2006-15 April 2007)
• Haarlemers in print: a choice from A.G. van der Steur's collection of portrait prints (20 September-10 December 2006)
• Townspeople and countryfolk (17 January 2004-14 November 2006)
• Hals: a family of painters (30 May-17 September 2006)
• Au plaisir de se revoir: Dutch masters from Luxemburg (12 April-25 June 2006)
• Pieter Saenredam's working procedure (14 October 2005-8 January 2006)
• Pieter Claesz [1596/97-1660]: master of still life in the Golden Age (27 November 2004-3 April 2005)
• Paradise lost (12 November 2004-20 February 2005)
• The van der Vinne family of artists (14 July-7 November 2004)
• Frans Hals in books (12 March-4 July 2004)
• Satire and jest: Dutch genre painting in Haarlem in the age of Frans Hals (20 September 2003-4 January 2004)
• Our dear and praiseworthy city: a portrait of Haarlem in the Golden Age (26 October 2002-31 August 2003)
• The Art Treasures of Haarlem's Chamber of Rhetoric Trou moet Blycken (17 May-16 August 2003)
• The painter draws: Michael Sweerts (11 January-11 April 2003)
• painter and writer (15 June-6 October 2002)
• Jacob van Ruisdael (27 April-29 July 2002)
• Pride and joy: children's portraits in the Netherlands 1500-1700 (21 January-22 April 2001)
• Pride and joy: children's portraits in the Netherlands, 1500-1700 (7 October-31 December 2000)