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Schilderswijk, The Hague — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Schilderswijk is a dense quarter just south of The Hague's historic centre, the Painters' Quarter, named for the Dutch artists on its street signs.
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Where to stay in Schilderswijk
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Few hotels sit inside Schilderswijk; this is a lived-in residential quarter rather than a visitor district. Its worth to a traveller is position. The Mauritshuis and the other museums of The Hague's centre lie within a short walk to the north.
Den Haag HS station, on the quarter's eastern side, feeds the wider rail network. Anyone after a broad choice of beds should book in the city centre just past the northern streets, while a room here can buy quieter nights and lower rates.
Things to do in and around The Hague
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Museums & Galleries
3- Gallery Prince Willem V Heritage
- Museum Maluku Heritage
- Mauritshuis
Churches & Religious Sites
5- Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk Heritage
- Nieuwe Kerk Heritage
- Kloosterkerk Heritage
- Sint-Jacobus de Meerderekerk Heritage
- Teresia van Avilakerk Heritage
Castles & Historic Sites
2- Binckhorst Castle Heritage
- Khojaly Massacre Memorial
Landmarks & Notable Places
3- Huis Schuylenburch Heritage
- Torentje
- Maurits Tower
worth knowingacross 4 categories in and around The Hague
About Schilderswijk
What are the main landmarks in Schilderswijk?
Schilderswijk keeps few sights of its own. Its landmarks are the museums that begin just past its northern edge, in The Hague's centre. The Mauritshuis leads them, hung with Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Close by stand the Escher Museum, in a former royal palace, and Panorama Mesdag, a huge circular painting of the sea and dunes. Two old churches, the Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk and the Nieuwe Kerk, rise nearby, and families head for the Kinderboekenmuseum.
What is the history of Schilderswijk?
Schilderswijk rose in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when a fast-growing The Hague needed cheap housing for its workers and threw up street after street of small terraced homes on open land south of the old town. Its streets were named for painters of the Dutch Golden Age, and from them the quarter took its own name, the Painters' Quarter. It was crowded from the start.
Much of the original housing has since been cleared and rebuilt. Wave after wave of newcomers has settled here, layering the quarter's many roots.
Where is Schilderswijk?
Schilderswijk occupies a tight block of streets on the inner south side of The Hague. The historic centre presses against it to the north, and the district of Laak runs along its eastern flank. Its layout is a nineteenth-century grid.
Little open ground breaks the rows of terraced houses, and most of the city's museums lie only a few blocks beyond its northern edge.
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Updated October 2026