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Restoring Mathilde ter Heijne: Life Inside Storage

Restoring Mathilde ter Heijne: Life Inside Storage

In the 1990s, Ter Heijne cycled through Berlin to collect cardboard boxes from various supermarkets. She stacked them into an installation and transformed ...

Jan van Brussel: Dual Justice

Jan van Brussel: Dual Justice

Jan van Brussel created this narrative painting in Maastricht around 1475.

Large in number, small in size - The Alkemade collection

Large in number, small in size - The Alkemade collection

After his death, the family of Mr Alkemade donated the collection, via the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, as a long-term loan to the Bonnefanten.

Russian Box by Aldo Rossi

Russian Box by Aldo Rossi

In 1989 the world-famous Italian architect Aldo Rossi designed Russian Box. The tower's architecture refers to the colourful Russian buildings built before ...

Loans at the Senate

Loans at the Senate

To increase the visibility of the work of artists and the museum's own collection, the interior of the temporary accommodation of the Senate has been ...

Maastricht Ceramics ‘Collection Polling’

Maastricht Ceramics ‘Collection Polling’

For many years, the employees of the museum only occasionally had the time to photograph and registrar objects of this subcollection. Volunteers of the ...

Long-term restoration completed - Crucifix

Long-term restoration completed - Crucifix

Little by little, step by step, all the different layers of paint, sometimes as many as eighteen, reappeared.

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Arcangelo III, 2020

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Arcangelo III, 2020

Arcangelo III is created during, and is closely linked to, the isolation of the corona crisis.

Gerard de Lairesse, The young Bacchus, late 17th - early 18th century

Gerard de Lairesse, The young Bacchus, late 17th - early 18th century

Sometimes things are not what they seem. This goes for the painting The young Bacchus, a long-term loan from the Limburgs Geschied- en Oudheidkundig ...

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, S. Jerome, ca. 1500-1550

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, S. Jerome, ca. 1500-1550

This old man retreated into the woods. Attentively, he gazes into the distance, as if he focusses on God.