New Logo and Identity for Mauritshuis by Studio Dumbar

Established in 1822, the Mauritshuis — “Maurits House” in English, a large residence built in the 1630s named after its owner Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil — is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands that is home to the “Royal Cabinet of Paintings”, a collection of more than 800 Dutch Golden Age paintings. Its most famous possession is Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring with other paintings from Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, and Hans Holbein the Younger among others. The museum closed for renovation in 2012 and just opened this past June, introducing a new identity designed by Studio Dumbar. Logo detail. Inspired by artists’ monograms, the new logo ove