Bezoek Utrecht

This oasis of art and culture is located in the very heart of Utrecht.

Museum Catharijneconvent surprises, fascinates and inspires with masterpieces from the Middle Ages and contemporary art top-notch pieces displayed in a magnificent convent that dates from the 15th century.

Beautiful gold and silver items, a pair of jeans by GSUS, paintings by masters such as Rembrandt, Pieter Saenredam and Jan van Scorel, video art, relics, sculptures of saints, rosaries and ancient manuscripts; all this and more can be seen in Utrecht’s Museum Catharijneconvent, located in a magnificent convent that dates from the Middle Ages.

Everything in this museum is linked to the present as well as the past of Christianity in the Netherlands. And with its collection of both Protestant and Catholic works of art and culture, this museum is unparalleled in the entire world.

In addition to the permanent collection, on the first floor of the convent building, Museum Catharijneconvent regularly holds exhibitions with a variation of old, modern and contemporary art and culture, from special exhibitions to top pieces from home and abroad, to specialist exhibitions for connoisseurs.