International Exhibitions

Since its founding two decades ago, The Leiden Collection has served as a unique “lending library” for Old Masters, loaning its artworks to museums worldwide and bringing Dutch paintings to global audiences. To date, The Collection has provided hundreds of loans to over ninety museums across North America, Europe, and Asia.

The Leiden Collection’s traveling exhibition debuted at the Louvre, Paris, in 2017, introducing the public to The Collection’s extraordinary character and scope. The show subsequently toured China, Russia, and the Middle East. In 2023, The Leiden Collection organized a special presentation of thirty-five important biblical and mythological paintings at the Hermitage Amsterdam (now H’ART Museum). That same year, The Collection’s masterpiece Young Woman Seated at a Virginal by Johannes Vermeer was included in the Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster Vermeer exhibition—enjoyed by over 650,000 visitors—before going on extended view in the museum’s Gallery of Honour.

In 2025, as part of Amsterdam’s 750th-anniversary celebrations, From Rembrandt to Vermeer, Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection will showcase seventy-five paintings from The Leiden Collection at H’ART Museum. This exhibition marks the largest presentation of works from The Leiden Collection ever displayed publicly. Later in the year, the works will travel to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.