Singer Laren
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Singer Laren is a museum and concert hall in Laren, Netherlands, dedicated to Dutch Modernism, featuring works from 1880-1950 by artists like Anton Mauve and Jan Sluijters.
Planning your visit
Laren was a Dutch artists' colony from the 1870s, drawing painters out of Amsterdam to the heath and farm country of Het Gooi, and William Singer, an American painter and heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, settled there with his wife Anna.
Their villa and collection became the museum, opened in 1956, and it covers Dutch modernism from 1880 to 1950 — the Laren school, the Hague school, and the Dutch response to Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism and geometric abstraction, with Mauve, Sluijters, Toorop and others.
Singer's own work and his international collection sit alongside.
A concert hall and a theatre share the site, so the museum functions as a cultural complex, and the sculpture garden extends into the grounds.
Laren is around half an hour from Amsterdam. Allow ninety minutes. Bookable options include skip-the-line tickets. Current availability is shown below.
Before you book
Where is Singer Laren?
Singer Laren is in Laren, Netherlands. The map on this page marks its exact location.
How long should I allow for Singer Laren?
Allow ninety minutes. That is the time the collection itself takes at an unhurried pace, before any queue.
Do I need to book Singer Laren in advance?
Skip-the-line entry is worth booking ahead here: the saving is the queue, which is exactly what sells out.