Literatuurmuseum / Kinderboekenmuseum

Om museet

The Literatuurmuseum goes back to the Nederlands Letterkundig Museum, founded in 1954. It collects everything connected with the lives and works of Dutch-language authors and illustrators: manuscripts, letters, personal archives, portraits, children's book illustrations and everyday objects. It does not collect books themselves, leaving that to the neighbouring Koninklijke Bibliotheek. More than 100,000 collection items are described in the online database.

The Kinderboekenmuseum has belonged to the same organisation since the 1990s; together the two museums form the Stichting Nederlands Literatuurmuseum en Literatuurarchief. The museum is located in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek building next to The Hague Central Station, with the entrance on the first floor. The foundation is also represented on the boards of several literary prizes, including the P.C. Hooft Prize.

At the heart of the permanent presentation is "De Galerij", in which archive items tell stories on themes ranging from religion and migration to the Second World War; as part of the Canon van Nederland, the museum also shows individual key pieces. For children there are hands-on exhibitions about books and characters. As the building must be vacated in a few years, the museum is to move to Utrecht at the end of 2027.

Højdepunkter

• De Galerij: permanent exhibition on Dutch literary history with archive objects
• Pink carnival costume of Louis Couperus
• Audio recordings of Marga Minco and J. C. Bloem reading from their own works
• Papiria: adventure exhibition for children aged 7 to 13
• "ABC met de dieren mee": play and climbing route for 0- to 6-year-olds
• Archive with over 100,000 described collection items

Permanente udstillinger

• De Galerij – Permanent exhibition that uses manuscripts, audio recordings and objects from the archive to tell how literature is interwoven with society and personal life.
• Papiria – Adventure exhibition for children aged 7 to 13 in an imaginative land of literature, with games, a reading meadow and a workshop on inventing your own stories.
• ABC met de dieren mee – Playful route for 0- to 6-year-olds along the alphabet, where children meet well-known children's book animals and discover letters and rhymes along the way.

Grundlagt

1954

Ejer

Stichting Nederlands Literatuurmuseum en Literatuurarchief

Ledelse

Valérie Drost

Entrépriser & rabatter

Free with the Museumkaart, Ooievaarspas, Rotterdampas, ICOM card and for Friends of the Museum; a time-slot ticket must be reserved online in these cases too. Payment in the museum by debit card or cash only, no credit cards.

Tilgængelighed

• Delvis kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Lifts and accessible toilets available, wheelchair available in the building; not all parts of the exhibitions are accessible by wheelchair. Prams and buggies are permitted. Dogs other than assistance dogs are not allowed.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Interaktive stationer
• Barnevognsvenlig
• Puslerum
• Legeplads / legehjørne

Family museum with "Papiria" (ages 7–13, including a workshop on writing your own stories), the climbing and play route "ABC met de dieren mee" (ages 0–6) and "Back Street" for 14- to 20-year-olds. Three changing tables and a nursing room; family ticket for 4 people €48.

Transport & parkering

By car via the A12 from the direction of Utrecht, exit 2 (P-Centrum). Because of the neighbouring Tweede Kamer, the entrance may be harder to access on special occasions; alternatively the museum can be reached via the entrance of the Nationaal Archief (Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 20).

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Museumsbutik
• Opbevaringsskabe

Museum café on the ground floor (Monday–Friday 11 a.m.–4.30 p.m., Saturday/Sunday 9.30 a.m.–4.30 p.m., card payment only, no American Express), bringing your own food is permitted there; no food or drink in the exhibitions. Museum shop at the entrance with (children's) books and gifts. Free lockers one floor down at the main entrance.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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