Groups
There are various options for group visits to the Vermeer Centrum Delft:
Self-guided tour: an audio tour is included with the admission ticket. This allows everyone to walk through the centre at their own pace. The audio tour provides valuable background information at several points in the exhibition.
Guided tours: you can join an expert guide for a tour of the Vermeer Centrum Delft or the city of Delft.
Click on this link to see which tours we offer. Each guide can take a maximum of 15 people. If you need several guides, we will be happy to arrange this for you.
Registration
Groups receive a discount of €3.00 on the normal admission price. Please let us know at least two weeks in advance if you would like to visit the centre with a group. To register your group, please email reserveringen@vermeerdelft.nl.
Schools
School classes are very welcome at the Vermeer Centrum Delft. We believe it is important for young people to learn more about Vermeer, Delft and his time.
Educational groups (after-school care, primary education, secondary education, vocational education and higher education) are welcome at the Vermeer Centrum Delft for an independent group visit using a free treasure hunt (after-school care & primary education) or our free audio tours (secondary education, vocational education & higher education). However, experience has shown that pupils and students learn much more about the work and life of Johannes Vermeer when they are given a guided tour by our professional guides.
That is why we have developed the Meet the Master of Light guided tour for educational groups. This tour lasts 60 minutes and a maximum of 15 pupils/students and 2 supervisors per tour can join each guide.
Meet the Master of Light
The Meet the Master of Light tour is a tour of the three exhibitions at the Vermeer Centrum Delft, namely: The World of Vermeer, Vermeer's Studio and The Love Messages in Vermeer's Paintings.
In The World of Vermeer, pupils/students are guided through Vermeer's entire surviving oeuvre – in reproduction, life-size and in chronological order. In doing so, pupils/students discover why Vermeer is considered the master of light of the 17th century. They learn about the ways in which Vermeer worked with focus, colour, contrast, reflection and perspective in his depiction of light. They also become aware that Vermeer was a suggestive storyteller and a master of composition. In addition, they develop an appreciation for the beauty and serene tranquillity that Vermeer achieved in his works.
The Vermeer studio explains how Vermeer made his own brushes and paint and which special pigments he used for this. Attention is also paid to perspective and to the workings and effects of the camera obscura, which was a hot topic among painters and scientists in the 17th century.
And in the exhibition Love Messages in Vermeer's Paintings, pupils/students are introduced to 17th-century emblemata: symbolic messages in painting that often escape us today, but which were commonly understood four centuries ago. The approach here is identification with the visual image culture of the 17th century.
Registration
To visit the centre with a school class, please email reserveringen@vermeerdelft.nl. Please let us know at least two weeks in advance if you would like to visit the centre with a school class.
Tour operators
There are various options for tour operators visiting the Vermeer Centrum Delft with a group:
Self-guided tour: an audio tour is included with the admission ticket. This allows everyone to walk through the centre at their own pace. The audio tour provides valuable background information at several points in the exhibition.
Guided tours: you can take a tour of the Vermeer Centrum Delft or the city of Delft with an expert guide.
Click on this link to see which tours we offer. Each guide can take a maximum of 15 people. If you need more than one guide, we will be happy to arrange this for you.
Registration
We request that tour operators contact us at least two weeks in advance to make a booking, via reserveringen@vermeerdelft.nl.
