Experience the world of silver

A visit to the Dutch Silver Museum in Schoonhoven offers a fun, interactive and educational outing for young and old.

Visitors see, feel, smell and hear silver, and discover much more about this versatile precious metal in the World of Silver. With regularly changing exhibitions and activities, it’s well worth coming back again!

Exhibitions

Silver stimulates the senses in the new exhibition ‘Please Touch’ at the Silver Museum

Please Touch!

Silver objects are delicate: fingerprints can cause permanent damage, and air pollution makes silver tarnish. Yet these very objects were originally made to be used. Showpieces passed from hand to hand at festive dinners, and religious items were touched in the hope of healing. Use left its marks: tangible reminders of human interaction.

‘Please Touch’ casts a critical light on the preservative nature of museums and raises questions about the relationship between touch, experience and meaning. Touch is a basic human need; from birth, a baby learns to rely on its senses for nourishment and development. The act of feeling can unlock memories or transport the mind to different times.

The exhibition will be on view from 30 October 2025 through 13 September 2026.

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Encounters: Daan Brouwer & Lynne Leegte

From December 11, the Dutch Silver Museum presents Encounters: Lynne Leegte & Daan Brouwer. This exhibition is the first edition of a new series in which the museum brings together contemporary artists, silversmiths, and designers. These encounters show how different creators open up each other’s worlds—and offer new ways of looking at materials and craftsmanship.

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50 years: Dutch Silver Club

From December 13, the Dutch Silver Museum will present 50 Years: Dutch Silver Club. Collecting art objects is not new and has been around for centuries. Well-known are collections of art and curiosities, which were kept in cabinets or even special rooms, the so-called art and curiosity cabinets and the ‘Wunderkammer’.