GemeenteMuseum The Hague
Exhibition Delftsware
The distinctive blue-and-white tulip vases, jars, jugs, dishes and ornaments produced since the seventeenth-century in the Dutch town of Delft are a major national and international icon of Dutch culture and identity.
This exhibition presents a three-dimensional version of the www.delftsaardewerk.nl website, an independent source of expert information to which the public will be able to make their own contributions. The multi-institutional open-access website (re-opening in November 2009) will address every facet of the fascinating world Dutch Delftware, from the intricate processes involved in its manufacture right through to the huge historic trade in the product. The site will be interactive, so that visitors can become part of the network. The www.delftsaardewerk.nl website will be a dynamic platform for the expansion and refinement of knowledge about this important aspect of the Dutch cultural heritage. It will put the Dutch Delftware collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag on-line (to be followed later by other museum and private collections). There will even be a set of key questions enabling visitors to determine whether items in their own possession are genuine Dutch Delftware.
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