Panorama Mesdag

The Panorama Mesdag in The Hague is a one-of-a-kind art experience that transports visitors into a vivid dune landscape. The enormous painting, created by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife between 1880 and 1881, shows the view of the North Sea near Scheveningen. You walk around the work inside a polygonal rotunda, while an artificial sand dune in the center creates the impression that you are standing on a dune yourself. The adjoining museum also houses a significant collection of more than a hundred paintings, drawings, and photographs by the artists and their contemporaries. Starting in 2026, the institution will be run as a national museum to safeguard this cultural heritage for the long term.