Mesdag panorama Museum – panoramafied

The Mesdag Panorama Museum in The Hague displays a painted panorama from the end of the 19th century. The scene was sketched near The Hague on the dunes of Scheveningen with ink in a glass cylinder and, with the help of this drawing, transferred to a painting measuring 120 x 14 meters. On the beach, you can see a large number of the keel-less ships that were common at the time, which were destroyed a few years later during a particularly severe storm surge. After this flood, different ships were built in the Netherlands—and dikes were constructed to protect against the floods of the North Sea.