“Er is vast leven na de dood, maar ik denk dat ik dat niet meer zal meemaken.” - Wim T Schippers 1942-2026

Boekenmarkt @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social zondag 28.6 🗓️

Dank voor de review @nrc.nl Apocalyps 🔥 bij Museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... @sjoerdjong.bsky.social

2026 is een feestjaar, want we bestaan 95 jaar! Om dit te vieren organiseren we in de loop van het jaar diverse evenementen. Op 22 maart beginnen we met het eerste, waarmee we ook meteen de Boekenweek afsluiten. Meer info: onzetaalwebwinkel.nl/divers... Portret Yoïn van Spijk: Jan van Dijk

Zondag bezoek je @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social gratis met je boekenweekgeschenk! @cpnb.nl @onzetaal.bsky.social

It’s snowing here…

trots op om dit jaar stemlokaal te zijn @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Jouw stemrecht is een van de belangrijkste rechten die in de Grondwet verankerd zijn, en wij hebben toevallig het ontwerp van de allereerste Nederlandse grondwet liggen. Handig! Iedereen die komt stemmen is die dag gratis welkom.

Psst our museum is selling Warhols. 19,95 @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Just saying 🛒

Go team museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social! 🏛️ Incredibly proud of this team, including all of our freelancers, volunteers, and everyone not pictured! It’s a privilege to call them ‘my team,’ as they’re the ones who make this museum what it is. ❤️

Just before stepping down as director of The Museum of Modern Art, Glenn Lowry gave an inspiring interview to El País english-elpais-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/english....

This Sunday is the opening of ‘Al het weten van de wereld’ with a book market in the garden at museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in The Hague. You are welcome from 12 PM to 5 PM! 🌞 🌞 🌞

David Hammons, 2025. Now this is how you do a catalogue. @hauserwirth.bsky.social

Join our Book Lunch this Thursday with artists Annabelle Binnerts & Eva van Bemmelen. They'll discuss "Reading Characters," their project exploring the playful side of typography and language. 🗓️ June 5, 12:00–13:00 📍 Huis van het boek @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social

“Liegen alsof het gedrukt staat” lees de review over Mythen en Mogelijkheden @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social nu in @metropolism.bsky.social metropolism.com/nl/recensie/...

Super fun double bill this Sunday @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social 14:00 – Live Book Making as an Art Form podcast w/ Team Thursday 15:00 – Opening The Alfabet Zelfportretten by Philip Akkerman

Quick look at one of the most important books in history. 📖 Now on view as part of Myths and Possibilities at Museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in The Hague. Imaginary worlds, alternative histories, and fictional visions of the future are timeless.

Now at Museum @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Myths and Possibilities. Imaginary worlds, alternative histories, and fictional visions of the future are timeless.

Fijn stuk in de krant vandaag over @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social - www.volkskrant.nl/tentoonstell...

Nu @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Huis van Ludwig Volbeda

Some say it’s the most important book ever printed: the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493! ✨ A stunning illustrated world history blending real events speculative fiction. Hugely influential! See it @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social in the current exhibition"Myths and Possibilities"

This coming Sunday at 2 PM is the second recording of The Bookmaking Podcast @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social this time is Limestone Bookshop the best specialist bookstore in the South! The recording is with a live audience, so please join!

This incredible photo of Keith Richards at home was captured by Christopher Simon Sykes. As shared in his autobiography Life, the guitarist's initial career aspiration was to become a librarian. :)

Yesterday, Book Museum in The Hague organized manuscript viewing for attendees of launch of Byvanck database on #miniatures in #medieval #manuscripts. A merry morning meandering memorable margins! Thanks to colleagues @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social

Amazing evening at the opening of 'Myths & Possibilities' and 'House of Ludwig Volbeda' @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social ! Busy, vibrant, inspiring. Music by Tomo Katsurada. Kicking off our year's theme on fact & fiction in books – crucial now more than ever. Fiction connects! Thanks to all who joined!

A museum like the House of the Book @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social wouldn't be complete without a bookstore! Our bookshop, run by the amazing Marijn and Nathalie, specializes in unique books on book history, art, and related to our exhibitions. Feel free to come and take a look! ✨

Thursday March 20, 12.00 Book Lunch with Leonie Brandner @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social on the Madrake, human rooted medicinal death scream 😱 🥪 📕

This Lego Letterpress needs your support! 39 days to get to 1000 supporters and make it real! ideas.lego.com/projects/a6d...

Team @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social represent @ CPC loop Den Haag 🏃🏃‍♀️

Reality & fiction blur @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social upcoming "Myths & Possibilities" starting with Thomas More's 1516 book "Utopia." Opening Friday 7 march 6.30pm

“Why don’t you wear a suit?” Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942

Wicked Art Education" book launch! 🚀 March 12, 2025 @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Presentation & workshop. Link for info/registration! www.huisvanhetboek.nl/zien-doen-le...

New book club alert! "Wi Buku, Wi Tori" Afro-Surinamese literature starting soon. Limited spots! @tailorsandwearers x @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Info: [email protected]

Kayfa Ta 🐎 #featuredpublisher closing soon! See their "how to" books at @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social basement vitrines.

“We can no longer afford to take that which was good in the past and simply call it our heritage, to discard the bad and simply think of it as a dead load. The subterranean stream of Western history has finally come to the surface.” The Origins of Totalitarianism - Summer 1950

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” - the Cheshire Cat 🐈

Nog 10 dagen en 13 uur tot de omloop! Hou vol! www.wanneerisdeomloop.nl

Alderman Saskia Bruines dropped by @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social 📖 @gemeentedenhaag.bsky.social

Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024 A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-...

Vanaf 8 maart @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social Ludwig Volbeda. Duik in schetsboeken en gelaagde illustraties die grote vragen verweven met alledaagse details. Hij won tweemaal het Gouden Penseel en debuteerde als schrijver met Oever, Regenboogboek van het jaar en genomineerd voor de Jeugdliteratuurprijs

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Niet missen! / Not to be missed! 📚 Hans Op de Beeck, Christiaan Huygens, Shani Leseman, Jorge Méndez Blake, Antonius Miscomini, Bouke de Vries, Lisette Alberti, Rising Lai, Lewis Carroll, Cathleen Owens, An Onghena, and more! Exhibition ‘Books As…’ only until 16 February @huisvanhetboek The Hague

“When you start to walk on the way, the way appears” - Rumi, Afghanistan, 1207

The thing about objects On the origin of letters The endurance of symbols Re-animating magic: making (non)sense + making it matter. @shanileseman.bsky.social @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social

“It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay” J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937 #voorleesdagen

Mussolini famously said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

When someone says out loud ‘the Golden Age begins now’ you know it has just ended.

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“Care and quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares.” - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

- Octavia Butler