1 januari 2025
Brandon Chow exposes the soul of sneaker culture with his film What I Talk About When I Talk About Sneakers. Stories from collectors, designers and writers show sneakers as status symbols, cultural icons and craftsmanship.
December 31, 2024
December 30, 2024 Late in the day, a fire broke out at our former, striking location on Elzenweg. The Schoenenkwartier at the Raadhuisplein in the center of Waalwijk, is open normally.
Oct. 19, 2024
The Shoe Quarter will present at Dutch Design Week 2024 the Artists in Residence who stayed stayed and worked at the Bodehuisje.
October 14, 2024
The winning art play object behind eht Schoenenkwartier in Waalwijk is De Brug, designed by Gijs Assmann.
October 6, 2024
In two months, Fred de la Bretonière will turn eighty years old, but it certainly didn't show on Sunday, Oct. 6, at the Schoenenkwartier in Waalwijk. There he opened "Typically Fred," a retrospective exhibition that looks back on his successful career as a shoe and bag designer, amid great interest.
17 september 2024
Michel Gallus is a shoe designer who enjoys challenging the shoe industry by designing modular shoes. An undergraduate student at the Design Academy Eindhoven, he graduated in 2020 with his project HIDE - Sneakers made entirely of leather. His current work uses both digital and hands-on techniques to design and make shoes.
July 15, 2024
The history of the museum goes back to 1954. In that year, the "Ancient Museum for the Shoe and Leather Industry" was founded as a result of the successful exhibition SLEM (shoes, leather and fashion). Here, avid collector and teacher of shoemaking, Antoon Hendriks showed a part of his personal collection which garnered the support of local shoe manufacturers in founding a museum.
July 11, 2024
Nicole van Aarle is the fifth generation of the van Aarle's, and the first and only female clog maker. She displays this knowledge in the Shoe Quarter.
July 5, 2024
Festive summer months In honor of Shoe Quarter's 70th anniversary and Neskrid's 100th anniversary, the two companies have joined forces. Visitors to the museum can have a free foot and movement analysis and discover which soles they stand on more firmly.
June 4, 2024
Laurindo Andrea is a fashion designer, historian and owner of the socially social and avant-garde label LAURINDO LOVE.
May 23, 2024
Eighty years young Fred de la Bretonière turns eighty at the end of this year. For more than fifty years he has been at the forefront of Dutch shoe designers. That, of course, needs to be celebrated.
May 16, 2024
The Board of Supervisors of the Shoe Quarter announces the permanent appointment of Rinske Jurgens as chief executive officer effective June 1, 2024.
April 23, 2024
How special it was! We look back on Her Majesty Queen Máxima's working visit to the Shoe Quarter today. Museum Director Rinske Jurgens welcomed Queen Máxima and Mayor Sacha Ausems with a special program. Queen Máxima was given a tour of our exhibitions by volunteers.
April 20, 2024
The exhibition Trek the Bold opened swinging this weekend. This family exhibition is one that makes you think and wants to take you out of your comfort zone. After all, which shoes suit you?
April 2, 2024
We are particularly honored to announce that on Tuesday, April 23, Her Majesty Queen Máxima will visit the Shoe Quarter.
1 april 2024
Maxim Verheul is a Dutch shoe designer who draws his inspiration from Dutch cultural heritage, in this case "the wooden shoe. His research at Schoenenkwartier focuses on the Dutch wooden shoe and the craft of making wooden shoes by hand
March 25, 2024
Go to the Shoe Quarter for free? You can! During Museum Week we don't check your museum card!
March 22, 2024
As a tough guy always wanted to try out pumps? Or wanted to look a lot taller thanks to funky platform soles from the seventies? This is possible from April 20 in the Schoenenkwartier in Waalwijk.
