The exhibition Fata Morgana focuses on Dutch artists from the 19th century who went in search of inspiration in the East. This fascintation was fuelled at home by travel journals, poetry books, and novels about the East. The trend also extended into the home where interiors took on an Eastern flare, with sometimes entire bathrooms and salons made over in an oriental style. The exhibition was organised around themes that were central to the artistic image of the east at the time such as; ‘1001 Nights’, the sensual odalisque and belly dancers, as well as the biblical east, still untouched by Western society. The exhibition ends by looking at the East today and comparing those images with the past. Surface area: 800 m2