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 Yet these very objects were originally made to be used.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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Elise van Staveren: Between Softness & Strength
Elise: “As human beings, we move between two ways of perceiving time: the desire to hold on and the awareness that everything passes.”
She combines paintings with silver objects. The paintings suspend time, while the silver changes through time.
Her works are based on moments. Everyday memories that many people can relate to. Through painting, she captures these fleeting moments and preserves them.
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