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Temporarily closed
The Stables Square is open during Winterpaleis Het Loo from 15 December until 6 January. The palace is closed until 2021 due to renovation. The gardens are open from April until September.
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Welcome at our enchanted Stables Square; a complete winter setting with an ice-rink!
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The palace in 2021
Read moreOn 7 March 2017 the final design was presented. A number of residential rooms in the palace will also be arranged differently. From 2021, visitors will enter the palace by the Grand Staircase, just as the former royal residents did. Several rooms in the servants quarters will be furnished and opened for the first time.
The door is locked
Read moreDirector Michel van Maarseveen closes the gates to the palace. Let the Renewal & Renovation begin! Photo: ANP – L. van Lieshout
Removal of objects
Read moreThe removal of the 170,000 objects of the palace has begun! The objects will be stored in a temporary depot. By Easter, the palace will be empty!
Clearing the Bassecour
Read moreThe clearing of the Bassecour has started with the removal of the grass. Also the boulders have been removed, with a total of 25 cubic metres. And a start has been made with disassembling the Dolphins fountain.
Archaeological finds on the Bassecour
Read moreA Roman coin, the foundations of a 17th century fountain and pottery of four thousand years old. The ground beneath the Bassecour is full of archaeological finds. In the following weeks, archaeologists will trying to dig and capture traces of earlier habitation.
Removal of the last object
Read moreThree months after Director Michel van Maarseveen symbolically locked the front door, Paleis Het Loo is empty. On 15 March the last object, a 19th century rug from King Willem II, was carefully packed. Having completed the removal of more than 160,000 objects a new phase begins; the renovation! Want another glimpse of what it…
Timelapse – removal of the gate
Read moreThe second timelapse of the renewal and renovation of Paleis Het Loo. Recorded in February and March 2018.
Timelapse – preparation digging
Read moreThe fourth timelapse of the Renewal & Renovation of Paleis Het Loo is recorded in April and May of 2018. It shows the underground concrete walls being completed. To be able to start digging the walls are first anchored.
The beginning
Read moreProject manager Jorden Hagenbeek fills you in on everything that has been done and what is to come in the future regarding the renovation and expansion.
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Museum Paleis Het Loo
Paleis Het Loo is not 'just' a palace, it is a museum with gardens and a Stables Square!
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