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Visit the Vermeer house: Click on each room.

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NEW Did Catharina elope with Vermeer in 1653?

Welcome message in MP3; 50 points for spotting the error.

Take a video walk in the Vermeer house

Albert Blankert video welcomes you to this site.

Cynthia Schneider on Vermeer as an Ambassador

What is our mission?

Where is the Vermeer house located?

The complete Vermeer inventory

A 3 minute lightning visit

A Dutch Traffic Board information panel

Tantalizing missing objects

Play the Vermeer House game

MP3 music composed in Vermeer's Delft.

Read about the technical reconstruction

Architectural analysis by Zantkuijl

Zantkuijl - Warffemius controversy on architecture discussed by Philip Steadman

Know all there is to know about love, sex and marriage

Discover all about 17th century pregnancy and birth with professional midwives

Go to school with the Vermeer kids

This internet site was inaugurated during a Grand Opening ceremony

A programme about this Digital Vermeer House has been shown on BBC-2

Read Philip Angel, a contemporary Leiden writer on art theory and practice, 1642

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NEW It is a rare and unique privilege that the Rijksmuseum has linked from the main Rijksmuseum site to this site. Start at www.rijksmuseum.nl and select Collection, after which you choose Digital Collaboration and the Digital Vermeer House.

Research copyright by art historian Kees Kaldenbach. Email kalden@xs4all.nl Back to the Welcome page: click Welcome. Thanks to industrial engineer and web-wizard ir. Allan Kuiper for his wonderful navigator and 3D movies. Thanks to Brenda Kaldenbach for her assistance in editing.

Launched January 17, 2003 - after 2 years of preparation. Updated November 28, 2007.