Exhibition archive

In 2018, The Hague was caught up in the Analog Patterns festival, a pattern-themed initiative of the Grafische Werkplaats. Escher in The Palace joined in the festivities with the exhibition Once upon a time... with works by Christie van der Haak and Suzan Drummen in the Palace's ballroom and 'green room'.

Every autumn, Escher in The Palace joins in with the festivities surrounding Prinsjesdag. This year the theme of the Prinsjesdag festival was 'Time to find common ground'. It was a good reason to raise the profile of Queen Emma, the Queen Mother. We did this in conjunction with the National Archive.

Maurits Cornelis Escher used photography as a source of inspiration and as part of his preliminary studies, as was evident for the first time in the exhibition Escher, Close Up.

In the summer of 2016, Escher in The Palace showed how Escher spent his holidays. His whole life Maurits Cornelis Escher enjoyed the seaside. A selection of Escher's own photos were shown in the Ballroom. Bathing costumes from the 1920s and 1930s from the collection of Kunstmuseum Den Haag (formerly: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) were also displayed. As icing on the cake, it was possible to photograph yourself in old-fashioned beachwear.

For the first time two Dutch museums with totally different backgrounds organised a common exhibition in which a comparison between Islamic art and the work of MC Escher was central: Escher & Treasures from Islam in The Hague and Escher meets Islamic Art in Amsterdam.