The lazy hazy crazy days of summer are behind us and it’s back to the September grindstone. But don’t worry. There is still plenty to do to fill the odd moment of leisure.

Go for a dry dip
To hold on to summer just that little bit longer, there is modern realism museum More’s Licked by the Waves, featuring the take of 70 artists on people having fun in the water, naked or otherwise. The exhibition includes work by Marlene Dumas, Claire Tabouret, Simone Kennedy Doig, Carel Willink, Amoako Boafo, Lydia Pettit, Jenna Gribbon, Neo Matloga, Katherine Bradford, Danny Fox, Jean Jullien, Vivian Greven, Niki de Saint Phalle and Aristide Maillol. Until October 6. Website

Take your twin to Blood Brothers
Happily Ever After productions is doing a revival of Willy Russel’s 1981 musical Blood Brothers at the Amsterdams Theaterhuis. It’s the story of twins separated at birth, with one growing up in the Liverpool working class environment in which they were both born and the other being raised by the middle class family that adopt him. Their paths inevitably cross with tragic consequences. September 5-8. Website

Ask a question about Nato
What if Donald Trump wins the American elections and quits Nato?  How “busted”, in the words of possibly the next president of the US, is it really”? Nato is 75 years old this year and the John Adams Institute invited Ivo Daalder, CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former US Nato representative, to talk about the body’s role as conflicts engulf an ever-warming globe. September 16. Website

Visit a listed building
It’s Open Monumentendag again and that means weird and wonderful (industrial) buildings that may not always be accessible will be open to the public. This year’s theme is “Routes, networks and links”, which means lots of locks, forts and towers, but there’s also the lure of castles and gardens, such as Slot Haamstede, whose creaky doors will open just for one day.  September 14 and 15. Website

Mira Miró
The Beelden aan Zee museum in Scheveningen has gathered together some 50 sculptures by Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miró (1893-1983). The selection of painted bronzes provides an insight into the development of Miró as a sculptor. They look just as jolly and colourful as his drawings and paintings but don’t be fooled. “If by some chance there is something lighthearted in my work, it was probably prompted by the need to escape the tragic side of my temperament. Life seems to me absurd,” Miró said. From September 20. Website 

See the pictures that tell a story
The Vrijthof museum of photography in Maastricht is presenting the first European retrospective of work by American photographer Joseph Rodriguez. On show is a selection of five series he made in New York, including Spanish Harlem, Juvenile and East Side Stories. Marginalised groups people his photographs which span some three decades. In Los Angeles, Rodriguez shadowed LAPD officers at their job shortly after the Rodney King riots. We’re all people is on from September 21. Website

Check out the pretty skirts
The Kunstmuseum in The Hague is putting Christian Dior in the spotlight, particularly his New Look that took the fashionable world by storm and gave women lots of legroom. The exhibition Dior – A New Look also takes in Dior’s successors through the decades, including Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and current and only female designer Maria Grazia Chiuri. From September 21. Website

Say I do
The Fries Museum is taking a look at wedding gowns through the ages, from gorgeous Frisian 17th-century finery to equally gorgeous designs by Iris van Herpen. The museum has even managed to persuade queen Máxima to part with her (tear-stained?) Valentino wedding dress for the occasion. Ja, ik wil! (I do!) opens on September 14. Website

Bag a bronze
Some 75 centuries-old and contemporary bronzes are winging their way to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for Asian bronze, 4,000 years of beauty. Six museums in Asia, as well as museums in Europe and the United States housing art from India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal and Korea were found willing to contribute to the exhibition, which includes 12th and 13th-century bronzes from Thailand that have never before left the country.

Religious statuary, mirrors with hidden messages, weapons, belts and wine vessels and other objects reflect the artistry and craftsmanship of anonymous and contemporary artists from ancient times until now. From September 27. Website

Gaze at the gold
It’s all gold and silver that glitters at the Drents museum in Dacia – empire of gold and silver. The exhibition focuses on what the Dacians were up to themselves before the Romans conquered what is now Romania in 106 AD. Gold and silver being plentiful and they became dab hands at creating splendid jewellery and religious objects, 500 of which are now on show. Until January 26. Website

Keep jogging
The STET English Theatre in The Hague presents a surtitled charity performance for artists from Gaza currently living in Beirut by Lebanese actor and playwright Hanane Haji.

In her play Jogging Haji puts herself in the skin of Medea, who sacrificed her children and of two contemporary Lebanese women, one who kills her children and herself, and another who sacrifices her children to the wars of the Middle East. Meanwhile Haji jogs, to keep the ravages of time at bay in a ravaged city. September 21. Website