March is here and that, in the Netherlands, could mean anything from raincoats to shorts. But don’t worry, bundled up or bare-legged, there is enough fun to be had outdoors and in.

Find the (arte)facts of war
It’s two years since the invasion of Ukraine and since then volunteer aid organisation Zeilen van Vrijheid has been providing ambulances, special vehicles and medical support to war-torn zones and organising fundraisers. The Tour de Artefacts is a travelling exhibition of personal items, showing the impact of the war on the lives of the people of Ukraine, from bloodied and scorched toys to scattered clothing. Until March 4. Website

Meet Rembrandt the director
The Rembrandthuis is presenting Rembrandt as  “theatre director”. Lights, paintbrush, action, except that the result is more like a still from the story being told on  the canvas. How Rembrandt managed the mise en scéne – pose, facial expression, gestures, lighting, costumes – is illustrated by works from the Rembrandthuis collection and works lent by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Mauritshuis and The Kremer Collection. From March 2. Website

Don’t be an elephant
“Porcelain Fever” raged through Europe in the 18th century, with frills (and no dount spills) galore. The Princessehof ceramics museum highhlights the two people who between them did their utmost to spread the virus. They were Polish king Augustus the Strong, who did locked up an alchemist who instead of making gold discovered how to make porcelain, prompting Augustus to found the Meissen porcelain factory, and French royal mistress Madame de Pompadour.

Designs couldn’t be mad, big or intricate enough. Augustus had a porcelain zoo, with dozens of life-size animals, 10 of which are on show, as well as piece from the Sévres and Dresden collections and the Musée des Arts Decoratifs and the Louvre.. Leave you rucksack at the door. From March 2. Website

Go back to the Wild West
The John Adams Institute in Amsterdam has invited American constitutional law expert and author of “Democratie van het Wilde Westen” Kenneth Manusama to talk about the fate of democracy in the US as it heads for the November elections whilst buffeted by racial, religious and legal controversy. The date, not coincidentally, is March 5, Super Tuesday, the most important day of the American primaries. March 5. Website

Discover the inner world of Robbie Williams
The Moco museum had better order a couple of crush barriers for the upcoming Robbie Williams solo show “Pride and Self-Prejudice” as Williams himself will be attending the opening.

The museum has been tight-lipped about the works on show, but some will “come to life” digitally and “quotes will make you stop, think, laugh, and question the pressure to present inner worlds in a consistent, understandable way to the outside world,” the museum said. From March 8. Website

Get confused at the Voorlinde
Polish-German sculptor Alicja Kwade combines and so transforms the materials she works with, leaving viewers desorientated and enlightened at the same time. She is having a solo show at the Voorlinde museum in Wassenaar, wich will also give you a chace to see how Piet Oudolf’s  garden is coming along. From March 9. Website

Step into a dream world
American photographer Deborah Turbeville photographed fashion but was not a fashion photographer. Unusual looking models in unconventional poses and settings almost pushed the product out of picture in her commercial work, without a peep from the advertisers. In her other images, often seemingly yellowed with age, the melancholy, dreamlike quality is even more manifest. “Photocollage” is on at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam from March 16. Website

Face the end
The world is doomed no matter what. The end. is how you could summarise “We were promised honey” by writer/performer Sam Ward presented by the English Theatre in The Hague. But it’s the journey that counts. What will it bring us (the audience)? Find out if you can bear it. March 22-24. Website

Release your inner peeping Tom
Queen Camilla with a cigarette in one hand and a G&T in the other: real or fake? (Mmmm..) And does it matter? Because truth is dead, British photographer Alison Jackson says in her eponymous exhibition at the Maastricht Fotomuseum.

In times of doctored photos and deep fakes, nothing is as it seems. Jackson used actors and doubles of celebrities for some 60 paparazzi shots of salacious indiscretions while at the same time revealing the viewers’ unbridled voyeuristic lust for the private lives of the rich and famous. “Truth is Dead” opens on March 23.  Website

Catch a Paasfestival
Easter weekend (Friday 29 to Monday April 1) kicks off with a bang with several festivals, including the DGTL music and art festival, a night of music at Awakenings, both in Amsterdam and, of course, Paaspop , which has managed to lure Tiësto to Schijndel.

Or a Paasmarket
A more sedate Easter occupation is to visit a Paasmarkt near you or go to the Paasmarkt of all Paasmarkts in The Hague. The Home Made and Antiek Easter Market is a great place to hunt for furniture, art, clothes, vintage stuff and that one object that turns out to be worth a zillion euros. March 29. Website

Check out some bull
De Stier van Potter (a reproduction of which used to grace the walls of almost every Dutch household once upon a time) is entering a two-year restoration at the Mauritshuis.

“Potterkijken” (Pottenkijken means taking a peek) explains the ins and outs of the restoration process and tells us about painter Paulus Potter (1625 – 1654) who painted his iconinc work De Stier in 1646 when he was 21. Potter, who died of tuberculosis at 28, was celebrated as a great painter of animals in his time, cowpats and buzzing flies included. From March 29. Website

Leave your Chanel bag at home
Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury (1961) has always turned the tables on advertising aimed at women, using irony (neon slogans) or, if necessary, guns (to shoot 22 Chanel bags to pieces). Femininity and gender are her themes, as well as the male dominance of art history. She is taking aim at all of them at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. “Yes to all” is on from March 30. Website