Exhibitions

Since the publication of the two standard works, HP1 and HP2, as well as exhibitions and study days in the Rotterdam Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, knowledge of, and interest in, late medieval badges has greatly increased. Researchers from various disciplines consider these small lead-tin pins to be uniquely visual bearers of information and valuable cultural history source material.

Makers of exhibitions are equally interested. Applications for loans from the Collection van Beuningen for (international) exhibitions are received on a regular basis. Applications can be not only for religious, but also for profane and (un)ambiguous sexual badges, depending on the framework and theme of the exhibition. Given sufficient lighting and explanatory texts, the badges can offer an important contribution to an exhibition’s ‘story’.

These past years many badges from the collection have travelled through Europe, to Italian, French, English, German and of course Dutch and Belgian musea, as part of the concept of an exhibition. One of the objectives of the Foundation is to promote the late medieval badge by means of exhibitions and other public presentations. For further information concerning the conditions for loans of badges from the Van Beuningen Family Collection please contact the Foundation’s secretariat.

A few expositions with late medieval badges - loans from the Van Beuningen Collection - on display:

• 20 November 2022 - 7 May 2023: Kasteel Wijchen, Wijchen / Wijvenwereld. Een verrassende kijk op vrouwen in de late middeleeuwen
• 21 August 2021 - 14 November 2021: Kasteel Huis Bergh, ’s-Heerenberg / Kracht van Kronieken
• 25 September 2020 - 17 January 2021: Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht / Body Language
• 2 October 2018 - 13 January 2019: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wenen / Pieter Breugel d. Ä, Once in a Lifetime
• 12 October 2018 - 15 December 2018: Erfgoed 's-Hertogenbosch, Groot Tuighuis / Badges uit Bossche bodem
• 30 April 2017 - 31 October 2017: Museum Het Sterkenhuis, Bergen / Bouwen op Geloof
• 19 May 2017 - 6 August 2017: Europäisches Hansemuseum, Lübeck / Pin it!
• Archeology days, October 2016: Stadsarcheologie Steenbergen, Erfgoed Brabant
• 12 February 2016 - 9 May 2016: Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch / Jheronimus Bosch - Visioenen van een genie
• 12 December 2015 - 31 October 2016: Zeeuws Museum Middelburg / Sign of the Times
• Until 6 January 2016: Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort, Boxtel / Boxtel in de Middeleeuwen
• 18 October 2015 - 17 January 2016: Musee des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu / De Mens, de Draak en de Dood
• 19 September 2014 - 19 January 2015: Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerpen / Heilige Boeken, Heilige Plaatsen
• Medio May 2014 - medio September 2014: Vrouwenpolder, Stichting de Nederlandse Ruimte
• 27 April - 21 September 2014: Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe / Das Konstanzer Konzil. Weltereignis des Mittelalters 1414 bis 1418
• 22 March - 23 June 2013: Bruggemuseum, Brugge / Liefde en Devotie; Het Gruuthusehandschrift
• 27 November 2012 - 16 March 2014: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden - Middeleeuws chic
• June 2012: Museum aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht - 500 jaar Made in Maastricht
• October 2008 - February 2009: Westfries Museum, Hoorn (N)
• February - May 2008: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (N)
• October 2007 - January 2008: Het Stadsmus, Hasselt (B)
• August - October 2007: AAC Galerie Weimar, Weimar (D)
• September 2006 - February 2007: Bruggemuseum-Gruuthuse, Brugge (B)
• June - October 2006: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (G)
• Summer 2006: Marie tak van Poortvliet Museum, Domburg (H)
• April - July 2006: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund (D)