Half way through the year and here is a new batch of exhibitions to cover every taste and every part of the country. So why not admire erotic imagery in Limburg, check out the Dutch queens in Paleis Het Loo or find out what Amsterdammers used to eat in the Allard Pierson museum.

Scale the heights in Rotterdam
It’s time to climb up the roofs of Rotterdam again for the 10th edition of the city’s Rooftop Days. This year’s dizzying highlight is the Rotterdam Rooftop Roetsj, a glide that will whoosh you from the roof of the Rotterdam Maritime Museum to the safety of solid ground.  Until June 9. Website

Come to head-turning Hadestown
Broadway production Hadestown is coming to Carré in Amsterdam. The musical, in the original English version, combines the ancient myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Persephone and Hades. It’s a tale of seduction at the price of freedom and love as an (almost) redemptive force. June 20-28 and July 1-6. Website

Meet the new ballerina
The Beelden aan Zee museum in Scheveningen features French artist Ryan Gander’s modern interpretation of the ballerina sculptures of Edgar Degas. Museums and private collectors from all over the world parted with their sculptures for the purpose, including Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which lent the museum the Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans for Gander to transform her. From June 20. Website

Give peace a chance
Mike’s Badhuistheater in Amsterdam presents The day they kidnapped the pope, the whimsical story of a Jewish New York Uber driver who holds the pope hostage to exact a single day of world peace. Timely on lots of levels. June 27-30. Website

Step into the world of refugee artists
The Dordrecht Museum is training the spotlights on artists who came to the Netherlands as refugees. Daria Khozhai (Ukraïne), Shamseddin Moradi (Iran), Harrison Omoyater (Nigeria), Bogdan Seredyak (Ukraïne) and Charles Badoue (Ivory Coast) share the challenges they faced making their way as artists in a strange country, and which found expression in paintings, video art and photography.  Until October 5. Website 

Discover the Netherlands’ feisty female monarchs
The genteelly bolshy titled exhibition Tegenspel (Counterplay) at Paleis Het Loo takes a look at the role of female monarchs in the Netherlands, as the next one – Amalia – is waiting in the wings.

Wilhelmina, Juliana and Beatrix all made their mark, for very different reasons. Wilhelmina came to the throne when women did not have the vote and came into her own during World War II, while Juliana was the first university graduate. Beatrix, as implacable as her hairdo, is credited with modernising the monarchy. Until August 9. Website 

Whet your appetite at the Allard Pierson
The Netherlands may not have a reputation for great culinary feats but Amsterdammers have always had a “curious stomach”, according to the exhibition Amsterdam Eats: a history in dishes at the Allard Pierson Museum.

Who ate what and where, and what were the food class boundaries? And what was added to the menu over time? There are cookbooks, paintings and photographs galore, one of them of a Jewish pickle stand, a poignant reminder of those that were lost to Amsterdam after the war. Until September 7. Website

See some bones and an old sock
Two lion bones found during the restoration of the Binnenhof parliamentary complex in The Hague will go on show as part of Above ground, an exhibition about extraordinary finds in 25 years of national archaeology at the Leiden Archaeological Museum.

The bones date from the first half of the 14^th century, before the period in which count Aalbrecht, who ran Holland and Zeeland on behalf of his brother Willem V, who had a small zoo on the square. The exhibition features some 500 objects found at 200 sites, including the oldest sock ever found in Europe, dating from the 16th century, at a dig in Groningen. Until September 7. Website

Get your kicks in Limburg
An artwork about golden showers didn’t make it but apart from that, anything goes at the Limburgs Museum exhibition Eroticism – Beyond Beauty and Shame. A journey through art through the ages shows the history of the depiction of erotic imagery. It is meant to make us think about what turns us on. Towers, by local sculptor Han van Wetering, for instance, could be penises or skyscrapers, depending on your dirty mind.

The show includes one controversial work, by American artist Andres Serrana. Piss Christ, features a photo of Christ on the cross submerged in the artist’s urine, which was destroyed by visitors at earlier exhibitions. But it got the ok from Sister Wendy, so it’s fine. Until January 4. Website

Celebrate with Amsterdam and Ajax
The Stadsarchief and Ajax supporters’ club have put together a great exhibition about the club’s 125 year history, including its highs and lows. Packed with documents, photos, videos and memorabilia, One club, One city, Ajax Amsterdam, will warm the cockles of every fan’s heart.

There is a supporters’ bar between the two halves of the exhibition and then it’s on to sob over Johan Cruyff’s shirt that he wore when Ajax beat Feyenoord to the national championship in 1966. Until August 31. Website