Visitor numbers and other results Frans Hals exhibition

Publication date: 10 June 2024 - 14:13

Total number of visitors: approx 300,000
Open: 115 days (Feb 16 – June 9, 2024)
Dutch visitors: 65%, international visitors 35% (4% from total number from France, 4% Germany, UK 8%)
Appreciation score: 8.8 (people said they were “happy and cheerful” about the exhibition, and enthusiastic about texts, design and hanging plan)
70,000 people watched the Online discovery Frans Hals: Strokes of Genius presented by actress Dame Joanna Lumley
Books sold: 10.051 Dutch, 3.153 English
Exhibition now travels in slightly different form to the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (12 July 2024 - 3 November 2024) and was earlier on show in the National Gallery London (30 September 2023 - 21 January 2024) where 92.000 visitors came

It's fantastic that so many people came to see Frans Hals. Thanks to the high appreciation for the exhibition, Frans Hals is back on the highest stage of Dutch 17th-century painting.

Taco Dibbits, Director General of the Rijksmuseum