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WELCOME
The Turing Foundation was
founded
by Pieter Geelen and his wife Françoise,
using the wealth he acquired as co-founder of TomTom NV,
and supports projects for:
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Most recent projects: January 2025
![]() ART January 2025 Michelangelo and Men, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2025-2026 In Michelangelo and Men, the Teylers Museum explores the prominent role of the male body in nearly all of
Michelangelo Buonarroti's (1475-1564) work. The figures are often nude, muscular and depicted in provocative and expressive poses.
No other subject occupied Michelangelo as much throughout his... more![]() ART January 2025 Brancusi from Centre Pompidou, H'Art Museum, Amsterdam, 2025-2026 H'ART Museum, formerly known as the Hermitage Amsterdam, is an independent museum found at Amstel 51 in the historic Amstelhof building.
After severing ties with Russia in 2022, the museum was rebranded as H'ART Museum in 2023 and focused on collaborations with international institutions
such... more![]() NATURE January 2025 Zeegrasherstel in de Oosterschelde, Oosterschelde, 2025-2026 The Sea Ranger Service> wants to enable marine biodiversity recovery on a greater scale by developing maritime
innovations and training young people as Sea Rangers to carry out operational nature restoration activities.
In collaboration with the University of Groningen, which has been a prominent... more![]() NATURE January 2025 Boosting the habitat of hammerhead sharks, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, 2025 Misión Tiburón is an NGO set up by two marine biologists. During their work they discovered that the hammerhead shark is one of the planet's most endangered species. They also realised that in the last decade insufficient attention has been paid to the species' nursery grounds and that... more![]() LEPROSY January 2025 Evaluation of five transcriptomic biomarkers for leprosy, Colombia, 2025-2027 Approximately 400 of the leprosy cases reported each year in the world are from Colombia.
In this project of the Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical,
researchers in the five regions with the highest incidence of leprosy in Colombia are taking samples from cases,
their close... more![]() ART January 2025 Het Leerorkest, 2025 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and make music together. They do so by giving primary school pupils weekly music lessons, given by professional music teachers. The children are acquainted with (classical) music, learn to... more![]() ART January 2025 In-school learning choir, Amsterdam, 2025 Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam (NVA) will start in May 2024 with in-school learning choirs in collaboration with the Leerorkest Amsterdam.
With the donation from the Turing Foundation, NVA is able to provide two singing classes per school season at 10 Leerorkest schools in Amsterdam South-East,
Amsterdam North and the... more![]() LEPROSY January 2025 COMBINE: Leprosy elimination by community screening & mass chemoprophylaxis, Kiribati, 2025-2026 Transmission of both leprosy and tuberculosis is through the respiratory tract and is greatly increased in places where many people live close together in poor economic conditions.
The Pacific Leprosy Foundation trial "COMBINE" in Kiribati (an island republic in... more![]() LEPROSY January 2025 Contribution to the leprosy research department of Netherlands Leprosy Relief, 2024 The Turing Foundation has been co-financing projects related to the fight against leprosy with Netherlands Leprosy Relief for years.
On top of this, every year we also donate directly to Netherlands Leprosy Relief
as a contribution towards the overhead costs it incurs as a... more |
Turing-supported projects you can visit in February and March:
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Het Leerorkest, 2025 The Leerorkest (founded in 2005) wants to give as many children as possible the opportunity of discovering how much fun it is to play an instrument and make... more | ![]() doorlopend |
In-school learning choir, Amsterdam, 2025 Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam (NVA) will start in May 2024 with in-school learning choirs in collaboration with the Leerorkest Amsterdam. With the... more |
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'Nieuw Parijs: van Monet tot Morisot', Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2025 The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is organising the exhibition New Paris: From Monet to Morisot. It focuses on the... more | ![]() doorlopend |
Raad van de Raaf. Een doe-tentoonstelling voor klimaathelden. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, 2024-2029 The Wereldmuseum is organising a new long-term exhibition as part of Wereldmuseum... more |
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Posters for the Planet in ARTIS, Design Museum Den Bosch, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam en Bonnefanten Maastricht, 2024-2025 The very best, most compelling and most persuasive... more | ![]() vanaf 9 mar |
'Kiefer 80', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam & Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, 2025 Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945, Germany) will celebrate his eightieth birthday in 2025. To mark this special... more |
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'Eventful Middle Ages: Sensory Experience in Late Medieval Devotion,' Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, 2025 In late medieval Europe, Christians deepened their religious experiences.... more | ![]() t/m 5 may |
'How Van Gogh Came to Groningen,' Groninger Museum, Groningen, 2024-2025 The Groninger Museum is presenting the exhibition 'How Van Gogh Came to Groningen,' which tells the story of... more |
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'Marianne von Werefkin, Pioneer of Expressionism,' Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, 2024-2025 Marianne von Werefkin is one of the most important representatives of expressionism. Yet she... more | ![]() t/m 2 mar |
Joan Miró - Sculptures, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, 2024-2025 Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the founders of surrealism, whose colourful, playful and experimental artworks... more |
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Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Bus transport to school matinees, 2024-2025 The mission of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet (NOB) is for everyone to experience the magic of opera... more | ![]() doorlopend |
'Welcome to the Orchestra - the premier league!, education for primary school and special needs schools, 2024-2026 Welcome to the Orchestra is the education program of the... more |
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'The Art of Illusion. Samuel van Hoogstraten', Rembrandt House, Amsterdam, 2025 At the 'The Art of Illusion' exhibition visitors to the Rembrandt House Museum get to know Rembrandt... more | ![]() t/m 23 mar |
'LIBERTÉ! Ary Scheffer (1795 - 1858) and French Romanticism' exhibition, Dordrechts Museum, 2024-2025 The Dordrechts Museum is organising 'LIBERTÉ! Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) and... more |
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Museum Het Spinozahuis exhibition, Rijnsburg, 2024-2025 Museum Het Spinozahuis is using powerful, innovative means to appeal to a broad range of people: interested laypeople... more | ![]() t/m feb |
Art on your Plate, dance and music in the classroom, 2024-2025 Since 2012 the Follow a Muse Foundation (FAM) has been producing and distributing online cultural education packages... more |
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'The Residents', music education for children aged eight to twelve, 2024-2025 The Residents is the Residentie Orkest's prime educational project for children aged between eight and... more | see the complete art calendar |
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