The Hague Art Museum

About

Kunstmuseum Den Haag was established on 29 May 1866 as the "Museum voor Moderne Kunst" (Museum of Modern Art). It has been renamed several times since, arriving at its current name. The present building was designed by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1931 and 1935. Berlage died in 1934 shortly before completion, and his son-in-law Emil Emanuel Strasser finished the project; the museum opened on 29 May 1935. In 1971, art collector Sal Slijper bequeathed roughly 190 Mondrian paintings, giving the museum the world's largest collection of works by Piet Mondrian. Mondrian's final painting, Victory Boogie-Woogie, is permanently on display here.