Singer Laren — Attraction in Laren

Great exhibitions + usually they show a part of permanent collection. Outstanding representation of 19th and 20th century Dutch paintings

Update Sep 2023. Eating a bite at the museum cafeteria used to be straightforward. Get in the line, ask at the counter what you want, take your order and go to any table. Not anymore. Sep 24 2023:

1. No more ordering at the counter, need to be served by a waiter
2. HALF of the tables have a sign “booked” on them. The only table available has dirty plates 3). One employee removed the plates (but didn’t clean the table)
3. Five minutes after we got seated, another employee showed up asking if we wanted to order. But she was just asking - she couldn’t take the order as she didn’t have the ordering device
4. Finally we placed the order with a third employee I understand some rules had to be changed during Covid. But isn’t it time to look at this situation rationally and make changes to improve customer experience? Do you know how many customers you are loosing at the cafe because you don’t have enough personnel to service tables? A year ago we couldn’t find a table even though half of them were “reserved “. (I.e. not enough people to serve them).

You still do great exhibitions, best in the Netherlands. Just make sure that you create best experience across all customer areas (this includes adding more wardrobe lockers,...

This post only concerns the cafe/restaurant of the Singer Museum and theatre. The place is relatively small inside, but with a beautiful large garden outdoors. Located in the centre of Laren, this place is full with the rich of t Gooi. Full of fancy dressed ladies, articulating well their accentless Dutch. Overweight gentleman with carefully dyed hair accompany them. Money talks. But! The atmosphere is still good, service by local youngsters is friendly and helpful. New Ukrainian fellow citizens took their chance on a job here and do so greatly. Plus, this month a full vegetarian menu. Never before did I have so many great options to pick. If you want to have lunch here, do it now and enjoy the good variety of veggy options. We had the very Dutch bitterballen, with local mustard and I tried the croque monsieur with eggplant. My friend had eggs with asparagus. All very nice and tasty. In the weekend it can be very crowded here, so be early for lunch and you may be able to...

The museum always has interesting exhibitions. This time it's about van Rijsselberghe, Jan Sluijters and contempories. Rooms present different themes. Also an exhibition with work from Klaas Gubbels and work from de Lussanet.

Be aware that the exhibitions will end soon, although several paintings were donated to the museum (collection Nardinc) and will be visible again in the future. Please check - not allowed to refer to the museum's website? - for actual information.

For those who want to see work of Singer himself, two paintings can be spotted in the café, outside of the temporary section.

Then the "Piet Oudolf" garden with sculptures is also...