Museum tips for the Christmas break
The most enjoyable museum outings for this Christmas break! The Christmas holidays are a great time to head out with the family and visit the finest museums. In this blog post you will find remarkable current museum exhibitions, and through these exhibitions we look back on a number of Lanzfeld bespoke projects from the past year.
Pokémon at the Van Gogh Museum
The Pokémon exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum needs little introduction. In terms of merchandising and licensing, it is one of the most remarkable collaborations in history. The images of the ecstatic visitors and museum shop customers travelled around the world. Lanzfeld Editions had the great honor of creating various products for the museum shop for this exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum.
Pikachu, Eevee, Snorlax and many other Pokémon can still be found at the Van Gogh Museum until 7 January 2024. And don’t forget to enjoy the wonderful works of Vincent van Gogh while you are there!
Pokémon at the Van Gogh Museum: until 7 January 2024
Also at the Van Gogh Museum:
Van Gogh along the Seine – Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
In this groundbreaking exhibition you discover why the area along the Seine around Asnières was a crucial place for the artistic development of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Signac, Georges Seurat, Emile Bernard and Charles Angrand.
The exhibition shows how the city and landscape changed through the industrial revolution and industrialisation. Five artists – Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard and Charles Angrand – headed to the banks of the Seine to paint. With their easels set up in the greenery, they captured the radical contrasts they encountered in the area: day-trippers relaxing in lush nature set against smoking chimneys and wasteland.
‘Van Gogh along the Seine’ – until 14 January 2024. More information at www.vangoghmuseum.nl
Ai Weiwei. In Search of Humanity – Kunsthal Rotterdam
Ai Weiwei is one of the most influential artists of our time. The Kunsthal Rotterdam has staged a large-scale exhibition of this famous artist, human rights activist and critic of authoritarian systems of power.
‘Ai Weiwei. In Search of Humanity’ is his most comprehensive retrospective to date. The exhibition offers an impressive overview of Ai Weiwei’s career spanning more than four decades, with paintings, cultural readymades, LEGO works, sculptures, installations, photography and video art. It features key works from all of his creative phases.
‘Ai Weiwei. In Search of Humanity’ is an impressive exhibition and a real must-see for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the singular world of the artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.
Please note: the exhibition attracts many visitors, so plan your visit in good time! And be sure to drop by the Kunsthal Shop – Lanzfeld Editions produced the merchandise for this special exhibition.
‘Ai Weiwei. In Search of Humanity’ – until 3 March 2024. More information at www.kunsthal.nl
Traveling with Vincent – Drents Museum Assen
At the Drents Museum, the Drenthe period of Vincent van Gogh is highlighted in the exhibition ‘Traveling with Vincent’. Discover perhaps the least known work of the world-famous painter and follow Vincent on his wanderings through the Drenthe of 1883.
Visitors to the exhibition board the train together with Vincent, look at the Drenthe landscape through his eyes and meet the contemporaries and sources of inspiration that mattered to him during his stay in Drenthe, such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Jean-François Millet and Anton Mauve.
Never before has the Drenthe period of Vincent van Gogh been the subject of such a large exhibition. For the first time, as many works as possible from his Drenthe oeuvre are on display.
In close collaboration with the museum, Lanzfeld Editions produces many products that can be found in the museum shop of the Drents Museum.
The Vincent van Gogh exhibition can be seen until 7 January 2024. More information at www.drentsmuseum.nl
The Children of the Hague School – Panorama Mesdag The Hague
Moving, entertaining, poignant and intimate
The exhibition ‘Children of the Hague School’ offers a glimpse into the world of children at the end of the 19th century. In the paintings and drawings of renowned Hague School painters such as Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Suze Robertson, Jozef Israëls and Jacob Maris, and contemporaries like Thérèse Schwartze and Barbara van Houten, the children come to life – intimately, sometimes movingly, sometimes poignantly.
You see children who worked alongside their parents in the fields, bringing in the fish, or who worked for example as maids or basket weavers. Children, in short, who played their part inside and outside the family, focused on survival. This stands in stark contrast to the intimate portraits the painters made of their own children.
The exhibition consists of around 45 paintings and drawings from museum and private collections, including previously unseen drawings from the collection of Museum Panorama Mesdag.
From 16 December 2023 to 20 May 2024. More information at www.panorama-mesdag.nl
The Kröller-Müller Museum and De Hoge Veluwe – Otterlo
Thanks to its location in the middle of the De Hoge Veluwe National Park, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo is an experience at any time of year. The park consists of forest, heathland, grassland and drifting sands, and is home to deer, mouflon and wild boar, among others. Walking or on a free White Bicycle, you can explore all the landscapes and arrive naturally at the museum. The collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum is world-renowned and includes many works by the most famous artists in the art history of the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum holds a large collection of Impressionist works by Van Gogh, Monet and Seurat, as well as works by Picasso, Mondrian, Van der Leck and Renoir. In the beautiful sculpture garden you can admire works by Christo, Jean Dubuffet and Henry Moore, among others.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, closed on 1 January. More information at www.krollermuller.nl
Lanzfeld Editions: museum merchandise for temporary exhibitions
Lanzfeld Editions is a specialist in the field of museum merchandise. For the special exhibitions mentioned in this article, we are proud to have created bespoke products in close collaboration with these museums. Curious about the possibilities? Get in touch with us and be amazed by our range!
