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Vermeer Centrum
Step into the workshop of the painter who turned Delft into a colour.
Not the original paintings (those are in the Mauritshuis and Rijksmuseum) but the next best thing — a full-scale recreation of Vermeer's studio, his palette, and every one of his 37 known works at life size.
Located in the former Sint-Lucasgilde (Saint Luke's Guild) where Vermeer was once headman. The museum reproduces all 37 known Vermeer paintings at original size, explains his camera obscura technique, his pigments (lapis lazuli for that famous blue), and shows the modest house on the Oude Langendijk where he lived and died at 43, buried in debt. Best to combine with a walk past his actual home location, marked with a plaque.
Voldersgracht 21, Delft
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