Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal

Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal is a city museum of fine arts in Leiden, the Netherlands. The museum hosts a collection of altarpieces and religious artifacts from before the Protestant Revolution that were formally ceded to the state in 1572, but it is mainly of interest for its collection of fijnschilder paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. This museum is located in a building that was originally a cloth hall (lakenhal) – a guild hall for cloth merchants and beer brewers in central Leiden. Like other municipal museums in the Netherlands, after opening its doors it became a repository for municipal art collections. Where possible, artifacts from Leiden are on display. A series of stained glass windows by Willem Thibaut commissioned for...