Haags Gemeentemuseum

I was about 7-8 years old. My grandmother's friend Ernst took me to the Haags Gemeentemuseum (The Hague Museum). Monet, Mondriaan, Kandinsky, Van Gogh. It connected. Ernst told me about the painters, making it come to live. I bought postcards of the paintings I liked, which I would proudly show back at school where nobody understood my fascination. I would stick them in a album and write about what I had seen. My parents bought me childern's art books. My first love was Renoir. They even got me A4 reproductions.
To this day the sound or heels klicking on a wooden parket floor sets me off to a very special place.

The Haags Gemeentemuseum hasn't lost its charm. It is an amazing building by Berlage and it holds tsuch reasures. I saw the sculptures of Ah Xian there for the first time.

www.haagsgemeentemuseum.nl

Oh yeah, there are also the GEM and Fotomuseum Den Haag situated next to it.