Events

Cube is Holland’s first museum entirely dedicated to design. It displays meaningful design that has an impact on the world.

The Bonnefantenmuseum is presenting the extensive retroperspective exhibition A Pen of All Work by the American artist Raymond Pettibon. The exhibition includes over 700 pieces of art dating from the 1960’s up to the present. Pettibon’s whole oeuvre is characterized by the inextricable link between text and image.

Fort St. Pieter is perched high above the Meuse river on the south side of the city, and is directly connected with the caves in St. Pietersberg hill via underground tunnels. You are sure to enjoy both the view from the fort and the stories told by your guide, mixing history with anecdotes and humour.

On the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th 15th 16th 21th & 22th of July 2017 André Rieu will transform the entire Vrijthof square into one great big open-air concert arena, filling the air with delightful melodies drawn from operas, operettas and musicals, the world of classical music, and catchy waltzes, punctuated by comical and moving moment and, most of all, plenty of romance. An unforgettable evening in Maastricht.

In July 2017 more than 20,000 musicians will participate in the World Music Contest (WMC) in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. 260 bands with an average of 80 musicians from 32 countries and 5 continents will compete for a place in the top of the world of wind music. Never before have so many bands registered for participation in the four annual event in the south of the Netherlands. The upcoming 18th edition will take place from 6 until 30 July 2017, and is expected to draw more than 350,000 visitors.

 Extraordinary Roman deity images, beautifully decorated gold and silver Merovingian jewellery, three mysterious dodecahedrons, shoes dating from the Middle Ages and a Viking sword: these are but just a few examples of the more than 100 remarkable archaeological treasures that are on display at Centre Céramique.