City council awards credit facility for design of new museum Escher
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City council awards credit facility for design of new museum Escher
Former US Embassy by Marcel Breuer © Jan Versnel / Maria Austria Institute.



THE HAGUE.- The management of Escher in The Palace announced The Hague city council’s decision to grant a credit facility for the costs of redesigning the former US embassy on Lange Voorhout in The Hague to house the museum. This represents a first step towards its evolution to a fully-fledged museum accessible to all. The European tendering procedure for the design of the new museum will be launched shortly.

"The award of the credit facility is an important step on the way to a new and inspiring home for the Escher collection, working in close and effective collaboration with The Hague city council." - Jet de Ranitz, chair of the Supervisory Board of Escher in The Palace / Kunstmuseum Den Haag

"We manage the world’s largest museum collection of Escher’s work. This move will give us the opportunity to evolve into a fully-fledged museum accessible to all. I look forward to giving more space to contemporary makers who engage in a dialogue with Escher, and to welcoming more schools and other visitors than we can at our current premises." - Margriet Schavemaker, director of Escher in The Palace / Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Escher collection

The Hague city council owns more than 1000 objects by Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), making this the world’s largest museum collection of work by this internationally celebrated printmaker. The collection is managed by Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Since 2002, this collection has been presented and accompanied by educational programs at Escher in The Palace on The Hague’s Lange Voorhout. Visitor numbers have grown steadily from 74,000 a year to 187,000 in the Escher anniversary year 2023.

M.C. Escher

The Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher is one of the most famous printmakers in the world. To this day, people remain fascinated by his images, which play with perspective, space and reality. Escher created his own world in his art, inspired by his admiration of and wonder at the laws of the world around us.










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