This is where you really get closer to Vincent van Gogh! Even walking in Vincent's footsteps. Standing where he stood. See where he lived. And experience Nuenen as he saw it. And recorded it.
Our museum is still closed for a while but you can go outside and see the many locations he painted or drew during his stay in Nuenen. We know from visitors that a guided tour brings this to life the most.
In total, Vincent van Gogh painted a quarter of his oeuvre in Nuenen. In retrospect, his stay in Nuenen was one of the most important and productive periods of his life. There he made the choice to use the daily, hard life of fellow human beings as a starting point for his painting. The many paintings and drawings are studies, and you can see the progress, the experiments with color, dark and light, practice in painting people, portraits, and the emergence of his typical style. The result is his first masterpiece: The Potato Eaters.
Get to know Nuenen and its many monuments by setting off with the real experts: the guides from Van Gogh Village Museum. They know untold details about Vincent van Gogh's life and have walked or biked through Nuenen with thousands of visitors. Or talked about him in a lecture.
A tour is customized, and can also be done in another language.
Nuenen guides
In Nuenen and its surroundings, dozens of buildings and landscapes have a direct relationship to Vincent's stay in Nuenen. Of those 23 objects, 14 were painted or drawn by him, one or more times. The Van Gogh Cycle Route runs along this living collection and is divided into several stages. Two of the bicycle routes clearly show the life of Vincent van Gogh:
Diagonally opposite our museum in Nuenen is a bicycle store that rents bicycles.
This store has city bikes or electric bikes for rent.
Please call in advance, the desired type may no longer be available for that day.
" Iwould also like you to get to know this corner of Brabant, which I think is much nicer than the Breda side. It is delightful here these days. "
Letter 439 Nuenen, March 18, 1884
Mill De Roosdonck was drawn and painted several times by Vincent van Gogh and also visible, in the window, in paintings by weavers. The mill is still used for grinding grain and is thus a "living" monument, well worth a visit!
The mill is open on Saturdays, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tip for a nice terrace: at the Water Mill of Opwetten. Also nice to meet up and chat, later, if that's allowed again. On the side of De Dommel, so you get the beautiful view for free. And within walking distance of the Van Gogh-Roosegaarde cycle path!
Every Saturday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Coll Water Mill is in operation and open to the public (excluding holidays).
Visitors are welcome to view the mills. Millers will be present and when possible the mill will be running.
A variety of flour products are available in the store; payment only in cash.
Diagonally across from our museum, you can see the monument Nune Ville. During Vincent's stay in Nuenen, the Begemann family lived here. Vincent fell in love with their daughter Margot.
You can tour the restored 19th-century building.
Once a month, the tour also includes a visit to Vincent's studio in the rectory. Please inquire at the museum.
If you want to stay a little longer, there are several bed and breakfasts in Nuenen such as the Kostershuisje or near the Opwettense Watermolen: Bed and Breakfast Opwetten. For a complete and up-to-date overview, check booking.com or tripadvisor.
In Nuenen, near the Park where there are some Van Gogh Monuments, you can find Parkhotel Auberge Vincent. Right in the center of Nuenen.
Bospark 't Wolfsven is an informal vacation park between Nuenen and Mierlo. Great for an outing with the family!
Nuenen is a stone's throw from Eindhoven. This offers the ideal opportunity for a weekend getaway: with a mix of high tech and industrial design and the outdoor museum Van Gogh Village Nuenen as well as the space and nature of Nuenen and its surroundings.
On March 30, 1853, Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert.
At the VVV office at Vincent van GoghHuis, a nice, compact walk of about 20 minutes is available. The booklet leads you along the highlights of Van Gogh's Zundert. The walk can possibly be extended with a 30-minute tour. In it you will experience Vincent's fascination with nature and farm life.
Van GoghHuis Zundert
The family Van Gogh has lived in Etten, Brabant, for seven years. Here Vincent received his first studio. It was in Etten that he became an artist. And no doubt he sat under the Moeier tree from time to time.
Van Gogh Etten-Leur
Het Noordbrabants Museum houses original works by Vincent van Gogh as the only museum location in Brabant.
They tell the story of the artist's Brabant origins and his great fascination with farm life.
Works by the artist hang in the Van Gogh pavilion.
Van Gogh in 's Hertogenbosch
