Museum Meermanno – House of the Book, formerly called Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, is a museum named after Willem Hendrik Jacob van Westreenen van Tiellandt on the Prinsessegracht 30 in The Hague.
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This is a converted booklover home, turned into a museum about books. On the ground level there is always a temprally expostion about a book related topic.
The first floor is about the private collection of the previous owner. It ranges from an ancient antiquity collection of Greek/Roman/Egyptian statues and trinkets and a very large book library with old bibles, 15th century science books and novels.
The temporary exhibition was about the illustrator Quintin Blake, who made pictures for Roald Dahl. It explained the reasoning of what he drew for various books, why he drew what he dre for the books and what the importance was in where to place the drawings in the various books. An eye opening experience!
It also had some interactive activities for the kids and on the weekend they can go to the attic to learn a middle age writing course with quill and paper.
The staff are very helpful, friendly and very willing to provide extra information.
In the summer there is a lovely garden where you can enjoy some...
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A very interesting visit. Highly recommend visiting the top floors, which include beautifully illustrated manuscripts, and an entire library of hand made “mini books”, all fully illustrated!
The current special exhibition was “books of controversy”, featuring any title which has been banned, purged, or censored. It was fascinating to see the evolution of what is deemed a “dangerous idea” throughout time, perhaps first it is progressive, then mainstream, then antiquated, and in danger of bringing us backwards. Many of these books carry racist, sexist, and hateful thought from modern eyes. Or in a dangerous time had pro democratic notions, pro socialist notions, anti-catholic notions. Truly fascinating to explore all these titles, and in a well framed exhibition that handles sensitive topics. A bit difficult for English readers, who need to carry a separate paper to read the...
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Positive: Staff are very friendly and the gift shop looks inviting. Their temporary exhibit on the Orient was really great and very interesting - they had a lot of artefacts. There's a collection of Egyptian & greek artefacts on the second floor which was also very insightful.
Could work on: While the bigger signs and descriptions are in English as well as Dutch, the plaques with all the detailed descriptions are only in Dutch, so if you're an English visitor, this might get frustrating as you'll end up missing quite a bit of detail, which is a pity. The exhibits on the top floor felt like an afterthought - just some miniature books but it's not a very inviting or engaging section...
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