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Museum Prinsenhof Delft

Delft, Netherlands

Museum Prinsenhof Delft is a municipal museum housed in a former convent in the historic centre of Delft, the Netherlands. The building, once the Convent of Saint Agatha, served as a residence for William of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt, who was assassinated there in 1584; the bullet holes in the wall are still preserved and shown to visitors.

The museum's collections focus on the history of Delft and of the Dutch struggle for independence, including Delftware pottery, seventeenth-century paintings and objects relating to the House of Orange-Nassau. As an institution rooted in Delft, the city where Johannes Vermeer lived and worked, it also documents the artistic and civic life of his era.