Soon: Oranjewoud Festival in Museum Belvédère
June 12-15, 2025
Museum Belvédère will be part of the Oranjewoud Festival from June 12 to15. Between 10 am and 5 pm there will be an interactive performance installation in the west wing of the museum and on Saturday you can participate in music workshops.
The Museum Café is open for a lunch or cake with coffee and tea. Please note that special arrangements (such as and high tea) are not allowed.
Jan Mankes
The exhibition Jan Mankes - giving expression to spiritual life can be visited during Oranjewoud Festival. You have access to the exhibition with your entrance ticket (or by having your museum card scanned).
Oranjewoud Festival
More information about the festival can be found here:
13 to 15 June
During opening hours of Museum Belvédère (10 am – 5 pm)
Kissing Nature
Empathy Ecologies by Lancel/Maat
Empathy Ecologies is an interactive performance installation by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat. It shows a hopeful narrative about future empathic connections between people, plants and technology. Plants are known to respond to human bodies, sound, touch and behaviour. The installation, a baroque mini-jungle of ferns from the forests of Oranjewoud, invites participants to explore a new embodied ‘empathy practice’ with plants.
June 14
During opening hours of Museum Belvédère (10:00 – 17:00)
Atlas workshops
Listening to music is nice, but participating is also fun. Under the guidance of Atlas musicians, you will get to know special rhythms and sounds of other cultures and ultimately participate in an intercultural jam session.
Schedule workshops:
11:00 - 11:30
12:00 - 12:30
14:00 - 14:30
15:00 - 15:30
13 & 14 June
After opening hours of Museum Belvédère
Ancestors - The Smartphone Orchestra
Take a selfie and become the great-grandparent of a person 200 years in the future. Ancestors is an interactive and immersive group experience that deeply connects you with your fellow players and with future generations.
Dates & times:
Friday 13 June 2025: 19:45 - 21:00
Friday 13 June 2025: 21:45 - 23:00
Saturday 14 June 2025: 19:00 - 20:15
Saturday 14 June 2025: 21:00 - 22:15
January 24, 2024 - New Year's concert
Sunday January 21, 2024 SOLD OUT!
entry from 10.30 am, start at 11.00 am
On Sunday, January 21, 2024, the New Year's concert starts at 11 a.m. in the Museum Café of Museum Belvédère, by occasional duo and fellow locals Wytske Holtrop, cello and Jelmer Tichelaar, marimba.
The concert lasts one hour and also offers the opportunity to wish each other a 'Happy New Year' while enjoying a drink. The concert program consists of music by the Estonian composer Ervo Pärt (1935) and the Argentinian composer and bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992).
A special program element is music by the Lithuanian composer and visual artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). From February 24 to June 9, 2024, Museum Belvédère will present an exhibition of his work for the first time in the Netherland. The music played by him during the concert can therefore be regarded as a 'prelude' to the exhibition.
Impression New Years's concert 2023 door het Skazka Kwartet (foto: Cor Pot).
Wytske Holtrop en Jelmer Tichelaar
The Frisian musicians, Wytske Holtrop was born in Gersloot and Jelmer Tichelaar in Knipe, enjoy national and international careers.
Holtrop works as a cellist with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra and, in addition to his performances as a soloist, Tichelaar works as a timpanist/percussionist with the Royal Military Band 'Johan Willem Friso'. He also substitutes for various other orchestras and ensembles and is active as a jury member, conductor and teacher.
Ticket sales
Ticket sales are at the Museum Belvédère box office and via the webshop. In previous years the concert was always sold out, so to avoid disappointment it is recommended to purchase tickets in time.
NB!
Because of this concert, the museum will only be open to regular visitors from 1 p.m. on Sunday, January 21. You are welcome!
Entrance fees
Adults - regular: €24.00
Adults - Friends of the museum: €20
Visitors up to 18 years old: €10
The price includes museum entrance, coffee and a drink. Reception from 10.30 am with coffee/tea.
May 26 to May 29, 2023 - Oranjewoud Festival
Oranjewoud - Pentecost weekend 26 to 29 May, 2023
During the eleventh edition of Oranjewoud Festival, Museum Belvédère will be integrated as a whole into the versatile, four-day event. An important part of the Expedition Zone, the festival's adventurous program line, takes place in and around the Museum.
The experience of the main exhibition Like Death (Als de Dood) and the exhibition 8 Frisian Artists becomes a unique experience through the collaboration with the festival; the interface between visual art and music will be explored in numerous ways.
Museum Belvédère will form the epicenter of the Expedition Zone from May 27 to 29 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., with a collection of installations, presentations and performances in and around the museum building that stimulate the musical experience.
After 5 p.m. the Museum is the setting for individual performances.
The complete program in and around the museum can be visited with the Expedition Zone Day Ticket or an entrance ticket to the museum for € 14.00 (the Museum Card is also valid). This includes access to Festivalhart De Proeftuin and the Family Zone.
Outside opening hours, Museum Belvédère hosts a number of evening concerts in the Museum Café. A ticket must be purchased separately for this.
Oranje Nassaulaan 12
8448 MT Heerenveen-Oranjewoud
0513-644999
info@museumbelvedere.nl
