Why is Frans Hals the most famous painter in Haarlem? Where is the cat in the doll’s house? How many ways can you paint a city? What jokes did artists make in their paintings? Join us on a guided tour of highlights from our permanent and temporary exhibitions, to discover the answers to all these questions!

Expect stories and fun assignments that make you look at the paintings and each other differently. Experience the museum upside down! what do you discover when you look upside down?

The Frans Hals Museum bears the name of the most famous artist from Haarlem. But the museum is more than just Frans Hals. This guided tour takes children past highlights in the museum. From seventeenth century to modern art, from paintings to the doll’s house, from Frans Hals to Jordaens and Sluijters.

During the fall holidays you can join this children’s tour again. Dates and times will follow later.

Please note: This is a guided tour for children in Dutch. Adults can listen to a story (in Dutch) every weekend in one of the rooms in location Hof.