The Light Between
Masters of the Dutch Golden Age
147 works. Four centuries. One gallery.
March 14 – September 7, 2026
Every painting holds
twelve stories.
You've only heard one.
The Gallery app surfaces what wall labels can't hold — the arguments between buyer and artist, the pigments that took three years to source, the X-ray that revealed a hidden portrait underneath.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer · c. 1665
Point. Identify. Understand.
Aim your camera at any artwork in our collection. The app identifies it in under two seconds and opens a world of context — medium, dimensions, acquisition date, and the three other museums that wanted it.
Your path through the gallery.
Tell us who you are — first visit, returning member, art history student — and the app builds a route that respects your hour, your mood, and what you haven't seen yet.
Works offline. All of it.
Download the permanent collection before you arrive. No signal needed in the lower galleries. No spinning wheels in front of a Rothko.
The painting remembers
everything. Now you can
ask it questions.
Scan any sculpture, painting, or installation. Watch its entire history unfold — from the quarry where the marble was cut to the conservation argument that kept it in the building.
Purchased 1891
Acquired from the estate of Baron Hendrik van Loon at the Paris sale. The museum outbid the Louvre by a margin that remains undisclosed.
1962 · Conservation Lab
Infrared reflectography revealed a second composition beneath the visible surface — a harbour scene, painted over by the artist himself.
Disputed 1987–2004
Three scholars argued workshop attribution. A 2004 dendrochronology study of the oak panel confirmed the master's hand beyond reasonable doubt.
Tokyo · 2019
Traveled to the National Museum of Western Art for six months. 340,000 visitors. It returned with a new climate-control crate custom-built for the crossing.
Already inside the museum?
Scan. Listen. See more than the frame.
The curator's voice,
in your ear,
in front of the work.
Not an actor reading a script. The curators who spent years acquiring these works, arguing over their placement, and writing the catalogue entries — they recorded the tours themselves.
The Geometry of Grief — Sample
Dr. Mireille Fontaine · 24 min
14 curator tours. 312 artworks. Free with every visit.
Get the AppCarry every gallery
in your pocket.
You've already stood in front of the work. The app gives you everything the frame can't hold — and everything that happened before the frame existed.
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