A visit to Museum Voorlinden is something you won't forget. Starting from the wonderful garden that leads to the museum you enter a true oasis. The garden was in fact designed by the landscape architect Piet Oudolf, who masterfully managed to create a graceful and elegant play between the interior and exterior of the museum, between architecture and nature. The result is a pleasant naturalness and spontaneity, with an environment designed to offer art and well-being throughout the year: each plant in fact follows its natural life cycle, without artificial impositions. There is a direct connection to the human life cycle, for which there are moments of flowering, rest and decay, in a perpetual cycle. Here you can see the energy changing over the course of the year. The garden offers a new experience as the season changes. So what better work could be included in the Museum's vision of connecting humanity, nature and architecture? Both in the gardens and in the exhibition halls, Voorlinden exhibits works of contemporary art that attract visitors from all over the world.
The museum is a private institution and is located on the beautiful Voorlinde estate in Wassenaar, a few kilometers from The Hague. The art collection of Joop van Caldenborgh is housed here, the largest private art collection in the Netherlands. In all there is more than 4 thousand square meters of museum, with areas dedicated to temporary exhibitions and the permanent collection. The building was designed by the Kraaijvanger architecture firm. The construction of the museum lasted about 3 years, until its official inauguration in September 2016 in the presence of King Willem-Alexander.
Below you can find information about the museum and its accessibility. What do we like most? The "stimulus-free" visits organized on weekends. Every Saturday and Sunday morning, from 10 to 11, you can access a museum with reduced sensory stimuli. What does it mean? There is a limited number of visitors, they are asked to put their phones on silent mode, they are asked not to converse, and to walk only in socks. These mornings are a success and more and more people take part. Many visitors may experience discomfort in a crowded or noisy place. This is an excellent opportunity to visit the museum collection and the garden with greater peace of mind.
Accessibility info
- Opening: Everyday from 11:00 until 17:00.
- Ticket price: Euro 19,50 per adult, Euro 8,50 per kids from 13 until 18 years old, free for kids up to 12 years old.
- Address: Buurtweg 90, 2244 AG Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
- Parking: accessible partking spaces at the parking P1, the closest to the museum. Access Aisles not highlighted/present.
- Accessibility: accessible with a wheelchair / small mobility scooter / buggy / rollator as long as the aid is not wider than 90 cm. The ''Swimming Pool'' of Leandro Elrich and "Open Ended" of Richard Serra are not accessible.
- Entrance: automatic doors.
- Toilets: accessible toilet with grab rails accessible for wheelchair users.
- Low stimulation-visits:every Saturday and Sunday morning, between 10 and 11, there is the Silence hour: only limited amount of visitors, phones on silet, limited conversations, and no shoes.
- Chaperone: if you can not visit the museum in autonomy, you can bring 1 companion for free.If there are not visible limitations, the museum could ask for a companion card or a statement from the doctor stating that the guidance is necessary.
- Rental: wheelchairs can be rented for the museum. Reservation is recommended by email (at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
- Mobility scooters: accepted if they are maximum 90 cm wide.
- Balance bikes: not accepted.