Mauritshuis Thyssen exchange — a once-only, simultaneous swap of 25 masterpieces each way between the Mauritshuis in The Hague and Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Official museum press dated 17 June 2026 confirms The Hague show runs 15 October 2026–17 January 2027, while Madrid opens 9 October 2026–10 January 2027. Both museums frame the loan on the theme of love and state this is the first simultaneous international museum exchange of its kind.
Dates: Hague vs Madrid
The Hague: Thyssen-Bornemisza ❤️ Mauritshuis – Masterpieces from Madrid — 15 Oct 2026 – 17 Jan 2027.
Madrid: Mauritshuis ♥ Thyssen-Bornemisza – Masterpieces from The Hague — 9 Oct 2026 – 10 Jan 2027.
Madrid opens six days earlier; both closes sit in mid-January 2027. Book via mauritshuis.nl/thyssen and museothyssen.org rather than third-party round-ups.
What travels: 25 works each way
Mauritshuis press lists Hague loans to Madrid including Avercamp’s Ice Scene, ter Borch’s Hunting for Lice and Woman Writing a Letter, Brueghel the Elder & Rubens’ The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, Coorte’s Still Life with Wild Strawberries, Hals’ Laughing Boy, Rembrandt’s Simeon’s Song of Praise, and Vermeer’s View of Delft (c. 1660–61). Thyssen’s Madrid page notes Dutch Golden Age rooms plus pairings with permanent-collection works.
In The Hague, Thyssen highlights span Jan van Eyck, Dürer, El Greco, Antonello da Messina, Piero della Francesca and Bronzino. Sebastiano del Piombo’s Portrait of Ferry Carondelet with his Secretaries hangs with the permanent collection beside Willem van Haecht’s Apelles Painting Campaspe, which reproduces that portrait inside a painted gallery.
Love theme and the Girl livestream
The selection tracks love as devotion, marriage, Adam and Eve, love of nature, and love of painting. A staged duo pairs Michael Sweerts’ Boy in a Turban (Thyssen) with Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring still in Room 15—linked by livestream so the two faces share a visual dialogue without moving the Girl off her usual wall.
People also ask: does View of Delft leave The Hague?
Yes. Mauritshuis press explicitly includes Vermeer’s View of Delft among the 25 works going to Madrid for the 9 October–10 January show. That is the landscape spike for Spanish and international searchers; the Girl stays in The Hague.
Why ADVANCE now (spike ~mid-October)
Museum-open queries rise 7–14 days out: “Mauritshuis Thyssen exchange,” “View of Delft Madrid,” “Thyssen Mauritshuis 2026 tickets.” Publishing mid–late September with verified dual-city dates and the 25/25 count ranks before press-week photo dumps.
Related Sunday Profile Art exhibitions
Pair this dual-city swap with our live guides to Willem de Kooning at the Rijksmuseum (https://www.thesundayprofile.com/de-kooning-rijksmuseum-2026) (from 9 October 2026) and Brancusi at MoMA (https://www.thesundayprofile.com/brancusi-moma-2026) (public from 25 October 2026). Those pieces cover Amsterdam and New York autumn spikes; this one covers The Hague ↔ Madrid. For the Los Angeles campus open the same September week, see also Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (https://www.thesundayprofile.com/lucas-museum-narrative-art-2026).
Sources: Mauritshuis press release, 17 June 2026 (simultaneous 25-work exchange; love theme; dates; named loans); Mauritshuis exhibition page Thyssen-Bornemisza ❤️ Mauritshuis; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibition page Mauritshuis ♥ Thyssen-Bornemisza.