Princessehof Ceramics Museum

Princessehof Ceramics Museum is an exhibition hall of earthenware production in the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The exhibition hall's name originates from one of two structures in which it is housed: a little royal residence worked in 1693 and later involved by Marie Louise, widow Princess of Orange. The other added fabricating is the Papinga stins, a previous fortress from the fifteenth century. The historical center is of enthusiasm for its structures, yet additionally for its accumulation of tiles, earthenware, and fired model. In 1731, the building was bought by Marie Louise, who had been a dowager since 1711 and went about as official for her child William IV up to that year, when he grew up.

She moved in and started a gathering of pottery, and her accumulation frames some portion of the historical center's gathering, most strikingly in the Nassaukamer, a period lounge area in Baroque style. After she kicked the bucket, the building was part into three houses, and one of these later came under the control of the Leeuwarden public accountant and workmanship authorities Nanne Ottema and his significant other Grietje Kingma, who established the exhibition hall amid their lifetime in 1917. The historical center has a bistro and frequently has going to workmanship displays. The gallery likewise for all time displays the previous studio of the Dutch ceramist Jan van der Vaart.