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FRANS HALS MUSEUM

PLACEText: Filip De Haes

The Frans Hals Museum is located in the center of Haarlem, a cosy city with 150 000 inhabitants, capital of Noord Holland and only a 15 minute trainride away from Amsterdam. It is named after the 17th century painter Frans Hals.

Frans Hals Museum
© Frans Hals Museum

Entrance fee for an adult is 7.5 euro. Visitors are allowed to take pictures, which is quite remarkable for museums in Holland (and western Europe in general).

Frans Hals Museum
Jan Van Scorel, Group Portrait of Pilgrims of the Knightly Brotherhood of the Holy Land in Haarlem (around 1528)

The museum rooms form a rectangle around a central garden. The tour through the museum – hosted in a 17th century building – starts with early Flemmish artists like Hans Memling.

Frans Hals Museum
Jan Van Scorel, Maria Magdalena (1530)

Room after room the museum shows colorful amazing paintings. As the rooms and paintings are ordened quite chronologically, you can see the paintings change however:

Frans Hals Museum
Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem, A Monk And A Beguine (1591)

At the beginning of the tour paintings focus a lot on Christian belief. But while entering the 17th century, you can clearly see Holland being in its Golden Age: trade, science and wealth were at their highest. While Catholic belief got suppressed, the more business-minded Protestants led Holland to masters of world trade. And the main subjects of paintings changed accordingly to landscapes, portraits, still lifes and historical views. They also became darker – don’t ask me why.

Frans Hals Museum
Central piece: Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem, The Massacre Of The Innocents (1591)

The Frans Hals Museum has a great collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings. So if you’re into some history, and if you’re in the neighbourhood, you might want to check this out. When we were there, we were almost the only visitors, so don’t expect queues.

There’s a museum shop and lockers for your bags at the entrance.

Frans Hals Museum
Open: 11:00 – 17:00 (Closed on Monday)
Address: 62 Groot Heiligland, Haarlem, The Netherland
Tel: +31 (0)23 511 5775
http://www.franshalsmuseum.nl

Text: Filip De Haes
Photos: Filip De Haes

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