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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to US amid Trump arts cuts

Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring is part of the Mauritshuis museum’s collection in The Hague.
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring is part of the Mauritshuis museum’s collection in The Hague. Photograph: Lex van Lieshout/ANP/AFP/Getty

A leading museum in the Netherlands has said it is reconsidering lending works from its collection to museums in the US amid the uncertainty wreaked by Donald Trump’s funding cuts and ideological impositions.

Martine Gosselink, the director of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, whose collection includes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, said the turmoil had left her team wary of lending pieces to the US.

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