When former director Frans Haks was imagining the future of the Groninger Museum’s new building, he envisioned a flexible, moveable structure that interacted with the landscape. In 1986 he wrote in his diary: “What about thinking of a ‘Walking Museum’ which settles at the water's edge in summer and walks on the frozen water in winter when there is sufficient ice?”

In the summer of 2026, the Groninger Museum is going for a stroll. Inspired by the artists’ society De Ploeg, whose members worked outdoors, the Walking Museum programme moves into the city and the surrounding landscape. Join our De Ploeg bike tours, catch our travelling education caravan in surprising locations, visit Eemshaven for the project Soundings, learn more about Groningen’s fascinating city markers, celebrate the launch of the magazine we have made about the last 10 years of programming at Wall House #2 or attend the outdoor exhibition Into Nature: Haunted by Waters.