Private Tour of Vermeer's Delft + Tickets to Vermeer Museum

This is where most of Vermeer's life has happened. There are many things to see here: The New Church, Hugo Grotius' statue, Vermeer's father's old house, Vermeer's later own house, the town hall, the oldest shop of Delft, the butter house, the weighing house and more! Your guide will tell you all about it.

Next to many other famous Dutch people, this is also the church where Johannes Vermeer has been buried. We will also enter the church and visit his grave.

Father of the Fatherland has been killed. This happened almost 50 years before Vermeer was born, but it has played a decisive role in the city's history.

n made, we first pass by a quite impressive facade from the year 1500: that of the water board. Your guide will tell you all about it.

he Dutch East India Company, its Delft chamber. It is the Dutch East India Company that made exotic materials and pigments available and indirectly facilitated Vermeer's carreer.

arsenal belonging to the state of Holland. An early version of this building can be seen on Vermeer's View of Delft.

made the sketches for his famous painting of the city. Let's see what we can still recognize today.

In Vermeer's time, this was the location where catholics used to live and organise hidden church services. That is why this is also where Vermeer's house (that of his mother in law, where he lived) used to stand, where he made all his paintings. New information from 2023 seems to suggest that the house is not demolished however.. Let's see if the curtains are finally open.

It is now believed that number 42 on this street is depicted on Vermeer's other painting of a little street in Delft. Let's see what it looks like now.

of Vermeer, housed in the former artists' guild of Delft. Vermeer has been here a lot and even became the president of the painters within the guilde.