Exhibitions · Photography · Asian Special Collections Schaefers’s daguerreotypes of the Borobudur In 1844, the German photographer Adolf Schaefer was recommended by Ph. F. von Siebold, advisor to the Ministry of the Colonies, to document the antiquities of the island of Java. Anouk Mansfeld • 23-09-2019
Exhibitions · Asian Special Collections Reading a Korean edition of the Diamond Sutra On view in the National Museum of Ethnology a very special 1578 copy of the Diamond Sutra. Guest author • 31-05-2018
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters · Exhibitions Arthurian Hero Meets Cistercian Monks in Bonn Installing the Wigalois manuscript in the Rheinisches Museum. A courier reports. André Bouwman • 07-11-2017
Exhibitions · Photography Urban Jungle: Megacities in Asia The world's largest cities and acclaimed photographer Martin Roemers Maartje van den Heuvel + 1 other • 02-10-2017
Early Printed and Rare Books · Exhibitions A Leiden Utopia in Leuven The edition of Thomas More's Utopia printed in Hoorn 1630 aimed at protestant readers; ‘catholic’ elements were weakened or removed. Guest author • 08-12-2016
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters · Exhibitions Imagining the past in a royal codex It took four folio volumes to contain an illustrated Miroir historial. A manuscript now kept in Leiden and one in Paris form the first two volumes of such a set, ordered by the French royal family. André Bouwman • 19-11-2010
Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Exhibitions The Night by Heinrich Aldegrever This woman wants to seduce us, the viewers. Jef Schaeps • 15-02-2010
Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Exhibitions Minerva by Hendrick Goltzius The artist has created his goddess solely with a brush, sometimes suggesting forms and outlines with the tip of the brush, sometimes applying heavy, graphic washings. Jef Schaeps • 27-11-2009
