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The Hague (/ h eɪ ɡ / HAYG; Dutch: Den Haag [dɛn ˈɦaːx] ⓘ or 's-Gravenhage [ˌsxraːvə(n)ˈɦaːɣə] ⓘ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands.
1774 - Prince William V Gallery established, the first public museum of the Netherlands [14] 1793 - Diligentia (society) founded. 1795 31 January: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, in The Hague, by the revolutionary Patriots, similar to the French declaration of 1789. 16 May: French-Batavian treaty signed in The Hague. [1]
The Oude Centrum (Old Center) forms the heart of The Hague, which includes the Binnenhof and Hofvijver, the Noordeinde Palace, the Mauritshuis museum, and the City Hall of The Hague. The history of the old center is reflected in the architectural diversity that can be found in this part of the city center, ranging from 17th century Renaissance ...
The museum has a collection of around 7,500 objects. This includes silsver guild vases, an almost five meter wide panorama of The Hague created by Jan van Goyen, dolls' houses by Lita de Ranitz en paintings by Jan van Ravesteyn, Paulus Constantijn la Fargue en Jan Steen, and also unusual objects such as the finger of Cornelis de Witt and the tongue of his brother Johan de Witt.
The Mauritshuis (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪtsˌɦœys], The Hague dialect: [ˈmɑːʁɪtsˌɦœːs]; lit. ' Maurice House ') is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings.
The Hague's Binnenhof with the Hofvijver (Court Pond). The Binnenhof (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɪnə(n)ˌɦɔf] ⓘ; English: Inner Court) and Buitenhof (Outer Court) is a complex of buildings in the city centre of The Hague, Netherlands, next to the Hofvijver (Court Pond).
Brussels was briefly the capital of the Netherlands and the low countries in the 16th and 19th centuries. Brussels was the capital of the Seventeen Provinces (1549–1581). During the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839), there were two government centers: The Hague and Brussels. The government sat in one of these cities every other ...
At first Carnegie simply wanted to donate the money directly to the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands for the building of the palace, but legal problems prohibited this, and in November 1903 the Carnegie Stichting was founded to manage the construction, ownership, and maintenance of the palace. This foundation is still responsible for ...