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The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. It has a collection of around 165,000 works, over many different forms of art.
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.
The city of The Hague, Netherlands, consists of eight districts (stadsdelen, singular stadsdeel), similar to boroughs.Each district is divided into subdistricts (wijken). ...
The municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg is the result of merging the municipalities Leidschendam and Voorburg in 2002. It consists of the two towns Leidschendam and Voorburg, which grew towards each other in the first half of the 20th century.
The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area (Dutch: Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag) [2] is a metropolitan area encompassing the cities of Rotterdam and The Hague as well as 21 other municipalities. [3] It was founded in 2014. The area has a population of approximately 2.7 million across 1,130 km 2 (440 sq mi). [1]
In the church tower there is an automatic carillon by Libertus van den Burgh, from 1689. [5] In the tower the mechanical clock was installed in 1927. [5] The clock with drum by Heynrick Vabrie that was used from 1541 to 1689 is kept in the museum 'Speelklok' in Utrecht.
The Koninklijke Schouwburg (literally translated: Royal Theater or Royal Playhouse) is a theater in the city center of The Hague.The theater was built in 1766 and has been in use as theater since 1804.
Until 1992 Ypenburg was a military airfield known as Ypenburg Airport.It was the site of the Battle for The Hague on 10 May 1940, at the beginning of World War II.German forces took over the airfield via an airborne landing, with the goal of apprehending Dutch government officials and the Queen.