The Vermeer Centrum Delft offers a visual discovery tour through the life, work and city of Johannes Vermeer. You enter 17th century Delft, view images of the painter's entire oeuvre, search for his teachers and the stories behind the paintings.
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Permanent Exhibition
Enter Vermeer
At the Vermeer Centrum Delft you will learn everything about the life, work, contemporaries and the city of Delft's most famous painter. Situated in the middle of the beautiful historic centre of Delft.
The time of Vermeer
In the Vermeer Centrum Delft you will get to know Delft in the 17th century and the role that Vermeer played in it. Delft was (and is) a flourishing and vibrant city. A city of trade, industry, art and science. The city of Delft Blue. The city of Van Leeuwenhoek, scientist and inventor of the microscope. And the city of Vermeer's fellow painters and contemporaries De Hoogh and Fabritius.
Studio
In the studio we will tell you everything about Vermeer's working methods, materials and techniques. About perspective, light and colour. What role did the Camera Obscura play? Which pigments did Vermeer work with and how did he make his paint? Also view our presentation about the restoration by the Rijksmuseum of the 'Letter-reading woman in blue'.
Sint Lucasgilde
Vermeer was the leader of the painters of the Sint Lucasgilde for four years. The Vermeer Centrum Delft is located in a modern reconstruction of the building on the same location where the guild was housed. Vermeer has many footprints here.