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The Museum Park

Museum Belvédère is located in the leafy Oranjewoud. The sleek museum building was designed by Eerde Schippers of Inbo architects from Heerenveen. The relief in the facade subtly refers to the parceled meadow landscape.

The building is built across the water in the Prinsenwijk, which was constructed as a Grand Canal in the eighteenth century by the (garden) architect Daniël Marot. In 2004, landscape architect Michael van Gessel modernized the rural area.

This makes the Museum Park Landgoed Oranjewoud a contemporary version of the old Baroque garden. 

The promenades have been restored on both sides of the Grand Canal, and coppice lots surrounded by water have been added. The area has an ecological wealth with various riparian biotopes. Maintenance is in the hands of Staatsbosbeheer.

The park is characterized by a sober simplicity, where peace and space reign supreme. A visit to the museum can easily be combined with a walk through the modern Museum Park or a longer walk through the woods of Oranjewoud, where you can also climb the Belvédère (lookout tower).

Tip: you can order a picnic basket and take it with you on location! Please contact the owner of the Museumcafé Rene van der Meulen: info@horecabelvedere.nl. 

Henk Visch – Unguided Tours

June 28 – September 21

From June 28 to September 21, 2025, Museum Belvédère will present a solo exhibition by visual artist Henk Visch (1950) in the museum park and in the rooms of the west wing. With a selection of twelve sculptures in the museum park, two smaller installations and sculptures in the west wing, the exhibition offers an extensive look at the poetic and often philosophical oeuvre of one of the most idiosyncratic artists in the Netherlands.

Henk Visch's sculptures vary from monumental formats to smaller installations. They are usually made of bronze, aluminum, steel or wood and sometimes in combination with added objects made of found material. The titles that Visch gives to his works are remarkable; they are often poetic, written in different languages ​​and evoke associations and meanings.

Henk Visch is known for a visual language that balances between abstraction and recognizability. His images are often quiet and withdrawn, stylized figures of people and animals, almost delicately balanced. They seem to be lost in thought, waiting or floating between worlds. The artist is not concerned with depicting visible reality, his work is rather a metaphor for reality and experiences. His images raise questions about human presence, vulnerability and the unspeakable.

The exhibition brings together both recent and older work, with key pieces from his oeuvre of the past decades. In addition, both old and new work is presented that has never been shown in a museum before.

The arrangement in the museum park creates a dialogue between form, space and meaning – an invitation to the visitor not only to look, but also to think, to feel and above all to wander.

About the artist

Henk Visch (Eindhoven, 1950) is a sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist. He was trained as a graphic artist at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch. Visch made his international breakthrough in the 1980s and represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1988.

He was a lecturer at the Academies in Amsterdam and Maastricht, a professor in Stuttgart and Münster and a guest lecturer in Beijing. His work is included in numerous collections at home and abroad and is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach in which sculpture, drawing and language are linked.

Booklet with walking routes

This handy booklet contains information about two estate walks, both of which start in Museum Belvédère. One walk takes you over the historic Oranjewoud Estate, the other takes you to the special new-build district of Skoatterwâld. In the booklet, both walks are provided with a clear route map, a time indication, extensive background information and inviting visual material.

The publication costs only € 4.95 and is available in the museum shop.

Museum Park Tour

Would you like to know more about the Museum Park? An experienced tour guide from Staatsbosbeheer will be happy to inform you about what grows, blooms and lives in this area. A tour lasts just over an hour and costs € 65. The maximum number of participants is twenty people.

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