Guided tour and workshop
Looking for a unique activity for your group or corporate event? Then book this guided tour and workshop for adults.
Guided tour and linoleum cutting workshop
Escher is one of the most famous graphic artists in the world. In his wonderful prints, he plays with perspective, space and reality. Nothing is what it seems with him. A concise (40-minute) tour will introduce you to several of M.C. Escher’s top artworks.
You will discover how he made his graphic prints and how he saw the world around him. Inspired by Escher’s world? A member of the museum’s teaching staff will get you making your own linoleum cut during the 65-minute workshop. Immersing yourself in this graphic technique also used by Escher will give you a solid sense of the production process and boost your appreciation of his graphic masterpieces!
You will be free to explore the second floor of your own accord after the workshop. It features an interactive exhibition that will teach you to see like Escher. Deceive your eyes, discover with your hands and become part of Escher’s perception. Immerse yourself in his illusion and become giant or tiny in just a few seconds. You will also be able to explore impossible figures and tessellations digitally.
Price € 49,50 p.p. *
For a group of at least 10 persons and no more than 20 persons. Visits with fewer than 10 participants are always a possibility, though the price will still be €495.00.
For information or bookings please send an e-mail to reservering@escherinhetpaleis.nl or call +31 70 427 77 30.The price includes:
- Entrance to the museum
- A 30-minute guided tour of the museum
- The 75-minute linoleum cutting workshop
- A cup of tea, coffee or soft drink with a muffin
*: With Ooievaarspas, Rotterdampas and Dordtpas discount cards: € 38,- p.p.
Extras
You can enjoy a delicious lunch or high tea in the former kitchen of Queen Mother Emma before or after the programme (booking required). Please feel free to enquire about the various options when booking the workshop.
Workshops
Create your own linocut
Would you like to learn more about graphic art, and what makes the work of M.C. Escher so special? During our linocut workshop, you will make your own graphic work. Every Sunday afternoon you can join us.
The following applies to the workshop
Age: 7-16 years Number: Up to 10 children Registration: Via the registration list in the museum, at the Atelier Time slots workshops: 12.30-13.30, 13.45-14.45 en 15.30-16.30 Costs: Admission is free for paying visitors Location: Escher Atelier
Create your own tessellation
M.C. Escher was fascinated, maybe even obsessed, by tessellations. He could puzzle for hours, days and months on the many ways a plane could be filled with repetitive figures.
Would you like to try this yourself? Now you can. On Wednesdays during school holidays, we organize a special workshop in which you can make your own tessellation!
The following applies to the workshop
For: Adults and children Number: Up to 15 participants Time: Walk in from 12.30pm to 3.45pm Costs: Admission is free for paying visitors Location: Escher Atelier
Upcoming dates
26 February 2025
30 April 2025
Escher for the blind and visually impaired
Several times a year, Escher in The Palace organises special guided tours for those who are blind or visually impaired. Before regular opening hours, between 09.30 and 11.00, we open our doors and take you on a tour of a number of masterpieces from the museum’s permanent exhibition. During the tour, specially trained guides talk about the life and work of Maurits Cornelis Escher. Our blind and visually impaired visitors get to know the artworks in an interactive way and they form an image based on feeling, hearing and imagining. Specially designed relief reproductions and props are used during the tour as an aid to experience the artworks even more intensively.
2024
Saturday 16 March 2024 | Sold out
Saturday 15 June 2024 | Sold out
Saturday 14 September 2024 | Sold out
Saturday 14 December 2024 | Sold out
2025
Saturday 8 March 2025 | 9:30 – 11.00
Saturday 14 June 2025 | 9:30 – 11.00
Saturday 20 September 2025 | 9:30 – 11.00
Saturday 13 December 2025 | 9:30 – 11.00
Sign up for guided tour for the blind and visually impaired
Register for one of the tours here. You can pay for your tickets at the box office on the day of the tour. The entrance fee for adults is €12.50. The entrance fee for children aged between 7 and 15 is €6.50. Accompanying persons have free entry, but we kindly ask them to register using this form.
The museum asked itself the question of how it could make the optical illusions of Escher perceptible to people who are blind or have a visual impairment. The solution was found in a special collaboration with students from the Technasium ISW Hoogeland. The pupils started a conversation in the palace with blind and visually impaired people. A number of solutions have emerged from this. Public Administration students from The Hague University of Applied Sciences then entered into discussions with the pupils and the target group and wrote grant applications for the best solutions.
With the grant award from the municipality of The Hague and Bartiméus, unique pieces have been produced that are used in these dedicated tours to not only make the works by M.C. Escher tangible, but also to make the story behind the artist and his techniques experienceable for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Stage 2
This project has since been continued. This second stage focused on young people. How can Escher’s works be made accessible to this specific target group? The emphasis is on independent museum visits. Alone or together with a sighted person. This resulted in designs for a series of interactive objects that guide visitors by means of audio and let them feel 3D versions of well-known Escher prints. From the results, we chose the three best. The designs were translated into museum objects by a professional design and production agency. The three objects have been given a permanent display on our second floor so that everyone can experience them independently during a visit to the museum.
A Royal Walk
The Hague and the House of Orange, go hand in hand. And it’s been that way for more than four hundred years. This Royal Walk is ideal for discovering the rich royal history of The Hague. The route takes you past the many palaces, historic monuments and beautiful palace gardens in the city centre. Wander through The Hague and feel like a king!
