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The Turing Foundation was established in 2006 by Pieter and Françoise Geelen. We support projects in the fields of visual arts and music education, the protection of the climate and marine biodiversity, and the eradication of leprosy as a disfiguring disease.
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Annual Report 2025
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Our most recent projects


Art • October 2026
Van Gogh and the Fauves, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2026-2028
Our apologies, the text for this project has not yet been translated into English ... more


Art • October 2026
Pracht en macht, Rijksmuseum Meermanno, Huis van het Boek, Den Haag, 2026-2028
Our apologies, the text for this project has not yet been translated into English ... more


Art • October 2026
Mondriaan Boogiewoogie, Kunstmuseum, Den Haag, 2026-2028
Our apologies, the text for this project has not yet been translated into English ... more


Art • October 2026
Het jaar 1500 - een Middeleeuws Panorama, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, 2026-2028
Our apologies, the text for this project has not yet been translated into English ... more


Art • October 2026
'Alle hens aan dek!', interactive music education for pupils aged six to ten, 2026-2026
Stichting Wiebeltenen (the Wiggly-Toes Foundation) is a musical collective working in the cultural sector in the north of the Netherlands (the provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe). From September 2026, it will stage the performance Alle hens aan dek! (All Hands on... more


Art • October 2026
NDT Class Series, Nederlands Dans Theater, 2026-2027
The Nederlands Dans Theater's (NDT) educational programme, NDT Class Series, is aimed at pupils from Reception to Year Six (aged five to eleven). It focuses intentionally on collaboration with schools where cultural participation is not a matter of course. By getting children to dance, watch dance and... more


Nature • October 2026
Protection of the Dogger Bank, the Netherlands, 2026
Blue Marine Foundation is established in 2010 with the objective to protect and restore marine life. The organization was founded by the team that created the award-winning book and documentary "The End of the Line', a story that showed the damage that is caused due to overfishing marine environments. The... more


Art • October 2026
Council of the Crow. A hands-on exhibition for climate heroes. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, 2026-2029
The Wereldmuseum is organising a new long-term exhibition as part of Wereldmuseum Junior. The Council of the Raven is a "hands-on exhibition for climate heroes," aiming to engage 180,000 children and families in the coming five-and-a-half years. Addressing the... more

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The Turing Foundation only supports applications in the areas of climate change, marine and coastal biodiversity, visual arts in Dutch museums, music education, and leprosy control. If your project meets our criteria, your application is most welcome.
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Now on view:

'Alle hens aan dek!', interactive music education for pupils aged six to ten
vanaf oct
'Alle hens aan dek!', interactive music education for pupils aged six to ten, 2026-2026
Stichting Wiebeltenen (the Wiggly-Toes Foundation) is a musical collective working in the cultural sector in the north of the Netherlands (the provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe). From...more
NDT Class Series, Nederlands Dans Theater
vanaf oct
NDT Class Series, Nederlands Dans Theater, 2026-2027
The Nederlands Dans Theater's (NDT) educational programme, NDT Class Series, is aimed at pupils from Reception to Year Six (aged five to eleven). It focuses intentionally on collaboration with schools where...more
Council of the Crow. A hands-on exhibition for climate heroes. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
vanaf oct
Council of the Crow. A hands-on exhibition for climate heroes. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, 2026-2029
The Wereldmuseum is organising a new long-term exhibition as part of Wereldmuseum Junior. The Council of the Raven is a "hands-on exhibition for climate heroes," aiming to engage 180,000...more
Het Leerorkest
t/m aug'29
Het Leerorkest, 2026-2029
Each year, the Leerorkest Nederland Foundation introduces thousands of children in the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean to instrumental music during school hours. The foundation supports existing Leerorkest programmes,...more
'Making More Music', educational music project, Municipality of Hof van Twente, 2026-2029
t/m jul'29
'Making More Music', educational music project, Municipality of Hof van Twente, 2026-2029
'Meer MUZIEK Maken' (Making More Music) is a multi-year educational music project in the Municipality of Hof van Twente, initiated by Home of Talents, CuBaHof and the joint wind and brass...more
'Music Lab', music workshops at asylum seeker centres
t/m 31 jul'27
'Music Lab', music workshops at asylum seeker centres, 2026-2027
For twenty-five years, music and music education have been a fixed element in De Vrolijkheid's KunstLab programme. From 2026, De Vrolijkheid will organise a Music Lab for children at ten asylum seeker centre...more
Shapeshifters, Natuurmuseum Brabant, Tilburg
t/m sep'27
Shapeshifters, Natuurmuseum Brabant, Tilburg, 2026-2027
Natuurmuseum Brabant in Tilburg is developing Shapeshifters, a permanent part of a museum series exploring social issues and aimed at teenagers and young adults. In Shapeshifters, visitors learn in an engaging way...more
In-school learning choir, Amsterdam
vanaf 1 sep
In-school learning choir, Amsterdam, 2026-2029
Each year, around 1,500 children in grades 5 through 8 sing in their own classrooms under the guidance of professional music educators, participating in both a spring and an autumn course. The programme complements...more
Music at School, Voorne aan Zee, 2026-2028
t/m 31 dec'28
Music at School, Voorne aan Zee, 2026-2028
In the three-year Music at School programme, Muziek met Klasse(n) is working with Bibliotheek Zuid -Hollandse Eilanden library to provide regular music education during school hours at seventeen primary schools in...more
Klasse[n]orkest, Stichting TacT Muziek, eastern Netherlands, 2025-2028
t/m aug'28
Klasse(n)orkest, Stichting TacT Muziek, eastern Netherlands, 2026-2028
Stichting TacT Muziek's Klasse(n)orkest East Netherlands project aims to give a boost to instrumental music education in the eastern Netherlands by establishing Klasse(n)orkesten (class orchestras). A...more
'Blaaskaken,' Cadenza Twello Music Association
t/m aug'27
'Blaaskaken', Cadenza Music Association, Twello, 2026-2028
The project Blaaskaken ("windbags") is developing a structural in-school music education programme at primary schools in Twello and the surrounding area. The initiative was introduced by Cadenza Twello Music...more
Marisol, The Car, 1964. Collectie Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Fotografie: Jannes Linders © Pictoright Amsterdam 2025
vanaf 10 oct
Marisol, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2026-2027
Venezuelan-American artist Marisol (1930-2016) became world-famous in the 1960s with her characteristic wooden figurative groups. The celebrated star of American Pop Art subsequently disappeared largely from...more
'The Residents', education for children aged eight to twelve, 2025-2028
t/m jun'28
'The Residents', education for children aged eight to twelve, 2025-2028
The Residentie Orkest organises the successful project 'The Residents', the orchestra's flagship education programme. 'The Residents' gives children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in The Hague the...more
Gerard van Honthorst, Susannah and the Elders, 1655. Galleria Borghese, Rome
t/m 13 sep
Gerard van Honthorst retrospective, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2026
Centraal Museum is organising an ambitious international retrospective exhibition on painter Gerard van Honthorst from April to September 2026. It will be first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to the...more
Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian, 1934, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
t/m 20 sep
'Amrita Sher-Gil - Icon of Modern Art in India', Drents Museum, 2026
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque and many others. India belongs only to me,' Amrita Sher-Gil (Budapest 1913-1941 Lahore) wrote in 1938. She is regarded as the 'Indian Frida Kahlo'. Yet outside...more
Michiel Sweerts, Boy in a Turban holding a Nosegay
vanaf 15 oct
'Thyssen-Bornemisza in the Mauritshuis', The Hague, 2026-2027
In autumn 2026, the Mauritshuis and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid will simultaneously exchange 25 highlights from their respective collections, centred on the theme 'humanity as a universal source of...more
Glacier Painting, Green and Brown, 1951, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
t/m 27 sep
'Nature in Motion - Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 1912-2004', Museum Belvédère, Oranjewoud, 2026
Museum Belvédère is organising the first retrospective outside the United Kingdom on Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004). In 1940, she settled in St Ives in Cornwall, which would...more
'Alle hens aan dek!', interactive music education for pupils aged six to ten
t/m sep
'Alle hens aan dek!', interactive music education for pupils aged six to ten, 2025
Stichting Wiebeltenen (the Wiggly-Toes Foundation) is a musical collective working in the cultural sector in the north of the Netherlands (the provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe). From...more
NDT Class Series, Nederlands Dans Theater
t/m sep
NDT Class Series, Nederlands Dans Theater, 2025
The Nederlands Dans Theater's (NDT) educational programme, NDT Class Series, is aimed at pupils from Reception to Year Six (aged five to eleven). It focuses intentionally on collaboration with schools where cultural...more
Council of the Crow. A hands-on exhibition for climate heroes. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
t/m jun'29
Council of the Crow. A hands-on exhibition for climate heroes. Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, 2025
The Wereldmuseum is organising a new long-term exhibition as part of Wereldmuseum Junior. The Council of the Raven is a "hands-on exhibition for climate heroes," aiming to engage 180,000 children...more
Anthropométrie sans titre (ANT 7), Yves Klein, 1960
t/m 25 oct
'Yves Klein and his artists family: Frits, Marie and Rotraut', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2026
When you think of Yves Klein then you think of the colour blue. More especially, his colour blue, International Klein Blue which he patented in 1960. But this now world-famous blue did not come...more
Hendrick Avercamp, IJsvermaak, olieverf op doek, ca. 1610-20
vanaf 2 oct
Averkamp returns to Kampen. Kampen through Hendrick and Barent Averkamp's Eyes, Stedelijk Museum Kampen, 2026-2027
Kampen is known for being a member of the former Hanseatic League, its picturesque and historic old town centre and its many monuments. Both Hendrick Averkamp and his nephew Barent...more

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