The large Christmas group of Jac. Bongaerts
It is on display again, Jac. Bongaerts' amazing Christmas group!
10 December 2024 to 5 January 2025
This masterpiece of the museum will be brought out again for Christmas. He worked more than 400 hours on this over 3 metres long ceramic Christmas group that weighs over 100 kilos. The Christmas group is set in a Limburg landscape, with familiar Tegel figures from Bongaerts' youth like the fishmonger, the charcoal collector and the organ man. It is one of the last projects Jac Bongaerts made before he died in 1997. Moving images will also be shown showing Jac Bongaerts making this Christmas group.
New white
Contemporary porcelain art
5 July to 8 December 2024
Porcelain was the white gold that was brought to the Netherlands at the time of the VOC. In the 18th century, European factories succeeded in producing a similar material. Today, porcelain is an integral part of our daily lives. Washbasins, toilet bowls, crockery, prostheses, even knives and machine parts are made from this hard white material. This exhibition runs alongside the Porcelain Fever exhibition at the Nationaal Keramiek Museum Princessehof in Leeuwarden. It focuses on the first European porcelain from the 18th century. The Tiendschuur Ceramics Centre shows contemporary porcelain art by leading ceramists from all over Europe.
