Save the Date: Teylers & Delineavit Symposium 2026

12 June 2026, 10:00-17:00 h. / Haarlem, Teylers Museum

Teylers Museum & Delineavit et Sculpsit symposium over Nederlandse en Vlaamse teken- en prentkunst: In de marge? Werken op papier door Nederlandse en Belgische amateurkunstenaars, ca. 1550–1850. Tijdens deze derde editie van dit gezamenlijke symposium staat het werk van amateurkunstenaars in de brede zin van het woord centraal. Een diverse groep sprekers uit zowel de academische wereld als het museale veld zal dit tot nu toe relatief onderbelichte aspect van de Nederlandse en Belgische prent- en tekenkunst belichten. De voertaal zal Nederlands zijn.

Het volledige programma en de inschrijfmogelijkheden volgen tezijnertijd.

IPH congress Paper Trade, Amsterdam, August 2026

24-29 August 2026 / Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

The 38th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) will be held in Holland in 2026.  The main theme will be Paper Trade.

Besides inspiring presentations, the program will include excursions to several Dutch sites of paper historical interest and will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, which was printed on handmade paper produced in the Zaanstreek, north of Amsterdam.

You are invited to read the call for papers and submit an abstract via the link to the IPH website. Submission deadline is 8 January 2026. More information will added to the IPH website in due course.

Public lecture at Tylers: Watermarks & computational art history

16 May 2025 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum

On Friday, May 16, the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in collaboration with Teylers Museum is organizing a public lecture on watermark analysis using digital tools. Speakers are Prof. Rick Johnson and Dr. Rob Fucci. This afternoon will take place at Teylers Museum, is free of charge and can also be followed online.

This public lecture on watermark analysis is part of the Watermarks research project, to which Rick Johnson and Rob Fucci are closely associated as researchers. This project, led by the RKD, is working to improve watermark identification and comparison with innovative digital tools and image processing techniques. The research is conducted in collaboration with various partners, including Teylers Museum. The public lecture ties in with the four-day Watermarks & Computational Art History short course being taught at the RKD in May.

For program and registration click here.

Symposium Vensters op de 16de eeuw

22 November 2024 / Haarlem, Teylers Museum

A symposium organised along the blockbuster exhibition on Maarten van Heemskerck. Click here for the program.

From Bruegel to Rubens: drawings exhibition in Brussels

11 October 2024 – 16 February 2025 / Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Curator Stefaan Hautekete has made yet another important exhibition of a selection from the museum’s finest Old Master drawings. The catalogue, with 93 illustrated entries, is the last one in a series of five.

For more information visit the museum’s website.