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Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

The influence of women within Japanese photography has been highly underestimated. This oversight is corrected in the exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here – Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. This exhibition provides the first major platform for the work of 26 Japanese women photographers whose work offers a new perspective on Japanese society and culture: a woman’s point of view...

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Museum closed due to the installation of exhibitions

From May 6 to 16, the museum will be closed due to the installation of two new exhibitions: Constant Bloom - Lucas Foglia and BEIRUTOPIA - Randa Mirza. 
We kindly welcome you back starting May 17!

KM21, the museum we share our building with, will remain open during this period. Discover the enigmatic and suggestive paintings of Mohammed Sami in the exhibition Fire Exit.

Moerwijk Forever

In Moerwijk Forever we see Moerwijk, a neighbourhood in The Hague, through the eyes of the children who live there. As narrators of their own story, they have pictured their daily activities, dreams and challenges. Over the past year, students from the P. Oosterleeschool and other young people from the neighbourhood photographed places in Moerwijk that are important to them. 

The young...

BEIRUTOPIA

In the exhibition BEIRUTOPIA, Lebanese photographer Randa Mirza (1978) examines the dramatic changes that Beirut, the city she was born and grew up in, has undergone. In recent decades, Lebanon has been rocked by a succession of political, financial and social crises and its people have been burdened by a political elite that enriches itself at their expense. BEIRUTOPIA is a personal visual essay...

Constant Bloom

Photographer Lucas Foglia (1983) has transformed the world’s longest butterfly migration into a powerful metaphor for connection across international borders. For millions of years, Painted Lady butterflies have migrated between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming wildflowers. As climate change shifts when and where wildflowers bloom, these resilient butterflies increasingly...

Letizia Battaglia - Life, Love and Death in Sicily

4 April – 23 August 2026 Photographer, activist and politician Letizia Battaglia (Sicily, 1935–2022) captured the harsh reality of life in Sicily in the shadow of the mafia. From the early 1970s, she recorded the impact of mafia rule on the Sicilian population and the suffering it caused. In her fight against organised crime, Battaglia wielded her camera as a weapon: as a photojournalist, she...

Farren van Wyk - Mixedness is my Mythology

4 April – 23 August 2026 In her first solo museum exhibition, South African-Dutch photographer Farren van Wyk explores South Africa’s and the Netherlands’ complex historical relationship of migration, ethnicity, colonialism and apartheid. Born in the last year of apartheid to a black South African mother and a white Dutch father, Van Wyk was classified as ‘coloured’. From the age of six she grew...

Eva Besnyö

Autumn 2026 The Fotomuseum Den Haag recently acquired an impressive collection of 341 photographs by Eva Besnyö (1910-2003), giving the museum the world’s largest collection of works by this iconic photographer. To celebrate this major acquisition, in the autumn of 2026 the museum will present the largest retrospective exhibition to date of Besnyö’s work. Born in Hungary, Besnyö moved in 1931 to...