Museum Panorama Mesdag

The Museum Panorama Mesdag offers an immersive art experience featuring the largest circular painting in the Netherlands. Created by the Dutch artist Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his assistants in 1881, the panorama is an extraordinary visual time capsule that transports visitors to the seaside village of Scheveningen as it appeared in the late 19th century. Among its first viewers was Vincent van Gogh, who praised the “faultless” presentation of the magical illusion. In the 19th century, panoramas were a global phenomenon — antecedents to photography and film, they traveled between locations and conveyed news and stories, drawing large crowds. This private museum, instituted by Mesdag and still maintained by his descendants, showcases works by the artist, his wife Sientje Mesdag-Van Houten, other family members and contemporaries. Alongside the collection and famed panorama — the oldest in the world still at its original location — the museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

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