News Archive 2014

  • Celebration of 25th anniversary of Ceramic Museum Goedewaagen, Saturday 29 November 2014, 13.30 - 16.30 hrs; free admission.
    Programme:
    • Rien Wijnsma video, 'The production of the miniature Heineken steam brewery De Hooiberg at Royal Goedewaagen'.
    • Sander Alblas, powerpoint lecture on a visit to the Japanese ceramics centres of Arita and Imari, 'A feeling of coming home' for the Goedewaagen designer
    • Bert-Jan Baas, powerpoint lecture on reconstructing art glazes of Goedewaagen and Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland from the period 1920-1950, 'Industrial archaeology at the museum collection'.
    • Friggo Visser, powerpoint lecture on highlights in 25 years of the ceramic museum, 'The tracks of a bad boy in the museum world', read more "
  • Rabobank Museum Day, Saturday 25 October 2014, 10am-17pm; guided tours from 10.30am-3.30pm, starting every half hour; free for Rabobank members on voucher, read more "
  • Open Companies Day, Saturday 1 November 2014, 10am-17pm; guided tours from 10.30am to 3.30pm, starting every half hour; free admission, read more "
  • Open Monuments Weekend: Guided tours of museum and factory workshops at 1.30, 2.30 and 3.30 p.m.; costs € 4 p.p. for adults and € 2 p.p. for young people from 6 to 17 years old, read more "
  • For a long time, Royal Goede- waagen was one of Europe's largest producers of clay pipes. By hosting the Dutch (Slow) Pipe Smoking Championships on Sunday 13 April, the factory now located in Nieuw Buinen and the Goede-Wagen Ceramic Museum therefore return in a sense to their historical roots. read more "
  • For once, the focus is not on our beautiful Art Nouveau and Art Déco collection, but on 10 very special objects produced by the Royal Goedewaagen pottery factory in the past year during the National Museum weekend of Saturday afternoon 5 and Sunday afternoon 6 April. Often these are artists' designs for very special occasions. The commissions executed reflect in an art-historical perspective the more than 400 year old craft tradition of the 8 factories that merged into the Goedewaagen concern.Hand-turned and often personalised urns that in terms of potter's craftsmanship are in line with the production of the Gouda Star of 14 May 1612. Newly designed Orange pipes, also a result of centuries of Gouda clay pipes. Tile tableaux as with the Amsterdam Distel or experimental tableaux in the line of Goedewaagen-Distel. Contemporary design as prevailing at Flora Plateel and of course highly sought after miniatures, a specialisation of Goedewaagen from January 1932 onwards. read more "