Tuesday October 6, 2026
Good morning, The Hague. Today: falls among residents over 65 rise for the first time since 2022, Girl with a Pearl Earring returns to the Mauritshuis after five weeks in Japan, and Rottumsestraat marks a century with a street party.
The activities listed below are just a curated sample of what’s going on in The Hague. Check out our completely redesigned events calendar here.
At a glance
🌦️ Weather: Hi 20°C / 68°F (about the same as yesterday) · Lo 17°C / 62°F · 20% chance of rain · wind W 10 km/h (5 knots)
🚲 Cycling: Dry until about 13:00, wet after that.
🌙 Sun & moon: Sunrise 07:52 · Sunset 19:08 · Waning Crescent · Moonrise 02:19 · Golden hour 18:38 to 19:08
🌊 Outdoors: Air quality moderate (AQI 48) · grass pollen low
💶 Markets: AEX 1,124 (+0.6%) · S&P 500 7,774 (+0.7%) · €1 = $1.12 · $1 = €0.89
Serious falls among Hague over-65s rise for the first time since 2022: Insurers recorded 2,280 falls causing fractures or brain injuries among the city’s over-65s last year. Only 375 insurer-funded prevention treatments were given in The Hague between 2021 and 2025.
Ten years on, a first design for the dangerous crossing at Central Station: The junction of Bezuidenhoutseweg and Rijnstraat beside The Hague Central Station is finally being rebuilt. It has been on the list for at least a decade.
Dutch government wants smartphones banned from all schools: The government wants phones out of classrooms and playgrounds alike, with the rule set to take effect on 1 January 2027. It is part of a wider push on children’s online safety, including a European minimum age for social media.
Cabinet asks schools to ban mobile phones from January: Ministers are asking every primary and secondary school to ban mobile phone use on school grounds from January. The government cannot compel schools, so the education ministry will negotiate an agreement instead.
Rottumsestraat marks a century with street party: Residents of the northern end of Rottumsestraat celebrated 100 years since the street’s first stone was laid. The Saturday programme ran from cake cutting at 14.00 to more than two hours of music.
Mayor registers Girl with a Pearl Earring as The Hague’s oldest resident: Vermeer’s painting returned to the Mauritshuis on Monday morning after five weeks on show in Osaka. Mayor Jan van Zanen signed a deed calling her the city’s oldest inhabitant.
Tram 19 now runs through to TU Delft Campus: The HTM line carried its first passengers from Delft station on to the university campus on Monday morning. A new stop called Aula serves the site directly.
Girl with a Pearl Earring back at the Mauritshuis after five weeks in Japan: Vermeer’s portrait was rehung Monday morning after five weeks in an Osaka exhibition. The museum director and the mayor marked the return by registering the girl as the city’s oldest resident.
Speuren bij Panorama Mesdag, a looking-and-finding trail for children: Speuren means searching, and that is the activity, children hunting for details around the museum rather than just walking past them. 6 October. 📅 MUSEUM / EDUCATIONAL
Prentenboek: Podiumdieren maken een toneelstuk, read aloud for small children: The picture book is about stage animals putting on a play, read aloud to young children who sit and listen. 6 October. 📅 KIDS WORKSHOP
Toddlers and picture books at a Peuter lezen session: Reading aimed at toddlers, the age where books are mostly pictures, pointing and sitting on a lap. 6 October. 📅 STORY / READING
Picture books lifted onto a stage: Kinderboeken op de planken: Books written for children get carried onto a stage, so the story arrives as performance instead of as reading aloud. 6 October. 📅 STORY / READING
Spelen op het Doe-eiland, play time for younger children: Doe means do, so this is hands-on play, a children’s activity where they get to handle things themselves. 6 October. 📅 KIDS WORKSHOP
Haags Barokcafé concert explores viola da gamba repertoire: Musica Antica hosts l’Amitié Musicienne in the Commissarissenzaal of Het Nutshuis on 10 October. The trio plays works by Johannes Schenck and August Kühnel for an instrument now seldom heard.
Wodan Boys to play their biggest show yet at Amare in 2027: The Hague band Wodan Boys will play Amare’s concert hall on 18 September 2027. The show is part of AmarePAARD, a renewed partnership between the two venues.
Late-night club sounds at Parish Gaynight: DJs Sandrien, Lupe, Siquiche and YOUNICK share booth duties across a six-hour session running until dawn. 6 October, 23:00 – 05:00. 📅 ELECTRONIC / DANCE
Twin guitars, vintage synths and a Hällas show with Earth Tongue: A Swedish band calling its sound Adventure Rock, with narrative songs and vintage synthesizers, plus Berlin-based psych duo Earth Tongue in support. 6 October, 20:00, PAARD, Kleine Zaal. 📅 POP / ROCK
Nostalgic vinyl and dancing at Huiskamer Danspaleis: A dedicated DJ plays vintage records while older adults gather to chat about memories and take to the floor. 6 October, 14:00, Bibliotheek Segbroek. 📅 DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Fireside Peace Chats asks whether Malawi’s peace stops at the front door: An informal dialogue with a gender and development specialist on household conflict, polygamy, and how far Malawi’s peaceful reputation actually reaches. 6 October, 17:30 – 19:00, Leiden University College The Hague. 📅 TALKS / IDEAS
Four Afghan negotiators on film at Just Peace Movie Night: Roya Sadat’s documentary follows four Afghan women who negotiated with the Taliban in 2021, with an exhibition and a panel afterwards. 6 October, 18:00 – 21:30, The Hague Humanity Hub. 📅 FILM
Diplomat Jos Douma talks value relativism over lunch: A former Dutch envoy reflects on foreign postings, universal values, and cultural differences followed by an informal lunch. 6 October. 📅 TALKS / IDEAS
Explore early childhood language at Taal Als Huisgenoot: Childcare, health, and library professionals walk room by room through language milestones from birth to age four. 6 October, 16:00 – 20:00, Het Hoenstraat 5, t, Den Haag. 📅 TALKS / IDEAS
Video projections, a murder mystery and Kurdish family history in The Original: Theatre, performance art and video projection built on a Kurdish family history, asking how hidden identity shapes self-image across generations. 6 October, 20:30, Het Nationale Theater – Zaal 3. 📅 COMEDY
Figma Commons Amsterdam, design demos and hands-on AI workshops: A historic canal house becomes a showcase for Figma AI, with interactive demos, hands-on workshops, team experts, food and drink. 6 October, COKO Space, Prinsengracht 526, 1017 KJ Amsterdam. 📅 WORKSHOP
A street violinist from under the Gevangenpoort, interviewed for Een Blokje Rond: One hour in an artist’s living room with the violinist who plays by the Hofvijver, booked ahead since space is limited. 6 October, 14:30 – 15:30, Photologix. 📅 TOUR
Life-writing prompts and autobiography exercises in the central library: Barbara van den Berg leads practical drafting assignments geared towards personal history and memoir writing. 6 October, 19:00, Centrale Bibliotheek, 1e verdieping, Studio B. 📅 WORKSHOP
Workout after Work: fifty minutes of circuits, weights and conditioning: Fifty minutes of functional work, weights, circuits and core with a trainer, all levels welcome, and despite the venue, not dancing. 6 October, 18:00, Latin Soul Dance. 📅 SPORTS
Book a soundproof piano cell on the library’s fifth floor: Two soundproof rooms sit between the infodesk and Podium B, bookable by the hour, two hours a day maximum per player. 6 October, 13:30, Centrale Bibliotheek, 1e verdieping, Studio B. 📅 GAMES / HOBBIES
Female Traveler Training covers situational awareness and physical response: Aimed at women already holding a recent full security training, with sessions on situational awareness, sexual assault and physical response. 6 October, The Hague Humanity Hub. 📅 WORKSHOP / TRAINING
The ocean energy sector’s annual conference and exhibition, Ocean Energy Europe: The yearly gathering of the ocean energy sector, conference plus exhibition, with talk of renewables, environmental protection and electrical engineering. 6 October, The Hague. 📅 CONFERENCE
Good to know
New on Dutch streaming: I Am Legend (Prime Video), Collision (HBO Max), Brothers (Apple TV), The Grinch (SkyShowtime)
New on the big screen: HalloWiebe: Overdrive is now showing at 3 cinemas, and Heart of the Beast at 3 cinemas. Showtimes here.
Overheard on Reddit: A post about someone trying to find an Italian man she met at a DJ Stingray 313 show at de Pip drew replies debating whether alcohol affected her memory of their conversation, with commenters disagreeing over whether beer was comparable to other drugs in that regard.
Today’s supermarket deals: Magnum Mini classic almond white (25% off) from Albert Heijn, Becel (1+1 free) from Jumbo.
Did you know? Vermeer’s pearl in "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging in The Hague’s Mauritshuis, almost certainly isn’t a real pearl – experts think he painted glass or a varnished teardrop instead.
75 years ago today: On October 6th, 1951, a monument to Grenadiers and Jagers regiment soldiers killed in WWII was unveiled on The Hague’s Hofweg.
Looking ahead – next week
The bigger things coming up in The Hague over the next seven days.
• Museum Night The Hague · Saturday 10 October
• Food La Route – Scheveningen Harbour · Thursday 8 October
• The Hague Cocktail Week · Sunday 4 October to Sunday 11 October
• Farmers Market · Wednesday 7 October
• Eneco Tour Cycling Festival · Tuesday 13 October
In case you missed it
Our three most clicked-on items from yesterday’s newsletter.
In tomorrow’s edition: In tomorrow’s edition: Open Boek met Tatjana Almuli takes place at Centrale Bibliotheek, Langs iconen van het Haagse Hout explores Mohammed Hatta at Centrum Den Haag, and Het Debuut 2026 plays at Het Nationale Theater.
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