The National Museum of Slavery, due to open in 2030, is part of an ongoing process being undertaken by the Dutch state to investigate the repercussions of its colonial past

Arthur Brand, who helped to recover a Van Gogh painting last month, says he was watching a "boring football game" when the surprising delivery was made

The first exhibition on Vincent’s visit to Drenthe, where art consoled him after a failed love affair

Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer

The Rijksmuseum will return six colonial artefacts, for the first time in its history

Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction

The show tracks the influence of ancient Egypt on musicians such as Beyoncé, Miles Davis and Fela Kuti, however, the country's tourism and antiquities ministry has accused the curators of "Afrocentrism"

Torso was found in Amsterdam river in 2013, but DNA testing was only carried out in 2021

The work, which has been in Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum since the early 1950s, originally belonged to a collector who died in the Holocaust

The Hartwig Art Foundation's institutional space will be run by Beatrix Ruf, the former director of the Stedelijk Museum

The transformed Protestant building is being relaunched as an exhibition space and cultural centre called Kunstkerk, or art church.

melanie bonajo, who often works with groups who are rarely given a voice, says that Covid-19 turned an existing “epidemic of loneliness” into a pandemic

Timely show narrates Indonesia's fight for independence from the Netherlands through the life stories of 23 "eyewitnesses"

Initiative questions why gyms, hair salons and brothels have reopened but culture venues remain closed in the Netherlands

The Standard Bearer has been purchased from the Rothschild family via a trust located in the Cook Islands

The decision ends a bitter dispute that damaged the reputation of Dutch restitution policy

Volume unveils many overlooked artists and highlights the international reach of painters from the Netherlands

The privately funded Dutch branch of the State Hermitage Museum has attracted 10,000 donations from the public but director says "we're not done yet"

A new study and a 2023 exhibition will reveal how Vincent’s art developed in Drenthe—an escape from city life and his lover Sien

The agreement overturns the Restitution Committee's 2013 rejection of the claim, which argued the painting was worth more to the museum than the heirs

Researchers will consider “various modes of return” for museum objects and how the process can help to reconcile with colonial past

The Dutch government adopts a committee’s “radical” guidelines, putting it at the forefront of European efforts to return colonial-era museum acquisitions

Alfred Hammerstein’s departure follows criticism of Dutch committee’s decisions

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

Institution previously associated with a 17th-century Dutch naval officer will become Kunstinstituut Melly in January

Dutch entrepreneur Rob Defares has donated €10m to the new initiative

Immersive installations by the Japan-based collective will be the centrepiece of Nowhere, a new digital art space in Utrecht

Exhibition visitors must drive electric cars through an arena housing major works by artists including Bas Princen, Bruce Nauman and Anselm Kiefer

Cultural institutions from Amsterdam to Utrecht will work together to advance diversity and inclusion in programming, audiences and staff

The Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands is currently on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic