World - City examines the interaction between Amsterdam and the world. How has Amsterdam gained such a prominent place on the world map? Who comes here? Who leaves? What was Amsterdam’s position in the world? What is it today? World - City offers answers and it poses questions.
On July 12, the new exhibition of the Tropenmuseum Things That Matter is officially opened. Things That Matter is a new exhibition about important things and the importance of things: objects of great personal significance that are at the same time closely connected with ten social issues of today, such as migration and origin.
From Sunday 17 June till Sunday 4 November 2018, the exhibition 'The Most Beautiful City - Amsterdam through the eyes of Eberhard van der Laan' can be seen at the Amsterdam Museum. Until just before his death, Mayor Eberhard van der Laan worked on an exhibition about his beloved city.
For twenty years the Netherlands’ greatest artist lived and worked in this impressive building in the heart of Amsterdam, now a museum. The Rembrandt House Museum gives visitors a complete Rembrandt experience.
In april the Prison Museum in Veenhuizen opened its new permanent presentation on its history. In this modern and interactive museum you will get acquainted with the special history of Veenhuizen. A story about discipline, orphans and paupers, civil servants and detainees.
For the exhibition Swim, Fish, Swim! in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam Kloosterboer has made the interactive table and exhibition walls. The exhibition lasts from 17 March to 28 October 2018.
The new exhibition The Network gives a new perspective on the resistance activities that took place around the Battle of Arnhem. The resistance stories are told in the middle of lively diorama scenes. Various film additions bring the scenes even more to life.
From Monday 26 February to Sunday 11 March 2018 an in-depth scientific examination of the Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer will take place: ‘The Girl in the Spotlight’. The museum’s most famous painting was last examined in 1994, during a conservation treatment.
