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Luxembourg's National Museum for Archaeology, History and Art (MHAHA) on the Marché-aux-Poissons in Luxembourg city centre has announced its 2026 programme of exhibitions.

It describes its 2026 season as rich and ambitious, combining great masters of international art, Luxembourg rediscoveries and major museum collaborations.

- From 16 January to 1 February 2026 at the National Museum: Presentation of the official portraits of the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess. Presented for the first time, the official portraits commissioned during the Trounwiessel on 3 October 2025 offer, through the works of Serge Ecker, Andrew Gow, Louise Pragnell and Roland Schauls, a contemporary vision of the state portrait, between representation of the new reign and vitality of the Luxembourg artistic scene. See New Bust, Portraits of Grand Duke Guillaume Unveiled

- From 20 March to 18 October 2026 at the National Museum: Vu Lilien a Linnen. Jugendstil, Handwerk a Konst zu Lëtzebuerg. The museum presents the first in-depth exploration of Jugendstil in Luxembourg. The exhibition draws on works of applied art, previously unseen drawings, and historical documents, revealing how the country embraced European innovations while maintaining a strong connection to tradition.

- From 5 June 2026 to 10 January 2027 at the National Museum: Berthe Brincour (1879-1947); An artist beyond norms and time. Rediscovering a Modern Pioneer in a major retrospective. Thanks to extensive research and restoration work, the exhibition reconstructs the career of an avant-garde artist whose visual language — graphic swirls, pastel colours, and intensely depicted bodies — defied categorisation and challenged the norms of her time.

- From 6 July to 4 October 2026 at the LUMA Arles: Edward Steichen and Nature. Presented as part of the Rencontres d’Arles, an unmissable event for the world of photography, it explores the photographer’s intimate connection with nature, a central theme of his artistic and botanical research, in an exhibition at LUMA Arles.

- From 9 October 2026 to 29 March 2027 at the National Museum: From Renoir to Monet; Impressionism from the Rau Collection. An exceptional selection of works from the Rau Collection for UNICEF, currently housed at the Arp Bahnhof Rolandseck Museum. Bringing together masters such as Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Degas, Vuillard and Modersohn-Becker, the exhibition "From Renoir to Monet: Impressionism from the Rau Collection" will place these masterpieces in dialogue with paintings from the MNAHA collection, notably by Dominique Lang, Sosthène Weis and Théo van Rysselberghe. This encounter will offer a unique opportunity to discover an Impressionist panorama of exceptional quality in Luxembourg.

- From 12 November 2026 to the end of March 2027 at the National Museum: Simone Decker; winner of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2026, a biennial prize created in 2022 by the Ministry of Culture intended to distinguish an artist for their entire body of work and their sustained commitment to the Luxembourg art scene.

- From 4 December 2026 at the National Museum: Edward Steichen (1879-1973); Life and Legacy. The fifth floor of the museum will host Life and Legacy, a major permanent exhibition tracing the life, work and legacy of the photographer. With 267 prints, the museum now boasts the world’s largest public collection of Steichen’s photographs, following significant acquisitions since 2022. The exhibition will offer a comprehensive view of the multifaceted career of this artist: a pioneer of pictorialism, director of MoMA, filmmaker, designer, horticulturist and a leading figure in modern museology.