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Melkweg

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Bekijk hoe de Melkweg een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt

Why you left, Who you left

'Why You Left, Who You Left' is a personal quest to find out what it means to feel at home somewhere. In the two-part photo series, Tengbeh Kamara explores why his father decided to move back to his native country, leaving his wife and three young children behind in the Netherlands.

MILK SOLO: Tra Fasi

In the context of Pretty Pissed festival, the MILK solo by Charity Charly will be shown. The photo series gives a visual impression of Tra Fasi, a short documentary that celebrates the Surinamese underground punk and its creative powers.

Amsterdam Pipe Museum

Bekijk hoe het Amsterdam Pipe Museum een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt.

Bij uitstek geschik voor mensen die een prikkelarm bezoek op prijs stellen

Ode aan één vrouw

The Amsterdam Pipe Museum pays tribute to one woman, a woman who earned her own income from 1770 onwards and was known and loved in the highest circles of society. In fact, she completely overshadowed her husband. Her name? Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond

Edith Dekyndt, Provisory Object 03, 2004

https://brakkegrond.nl/plan-je-bezoek/toegankelijkheid

What Cannot Be Held: Contemporary voices of Belgian art

The exhibition What Cannot Be Held, investigates humanity’s vulnerable position within a changing world. The exhibition is held at Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond.

Vooges aan 't IJ

The Beauty of Amsterdam

The Beauty of Amsterdam is a photo exhibition, made by Yvonne Liew-On. For 15 years she has taken countless photos of Amsterdam. The 16 best photos can be viewed during this exhibition, until end of August, 2025 in Vooges aan 't IJ.

De Engelbewaarder

Foto-expositie

Chasing the Sun

Autonomous photographer Merlijn Hooijsma exhibits in literary café de Engelbewaarder. During the making of Chasing the Sun I was inspired by the invisible forces that shape our world, the bond with my brother, the coherence of man and nature and life in the here and now.

sigeren speciaal voor Ed van Thijn gerold

Zelfs de fraaie kist is voor de burgemeester gemaakt

Cigars for Ed van Thijn

As mayor of Amsterdam, Ed van Thijn was our city's calling card from 1983 to 1994. He represented the city and the Netherlands at home and abroad. During such visits, he often received gifts. During a visit from the Indonesian president, he received a box of cigars, which were specially made for him. As part of Amsterdam 750, you can admire the cigars between 2 June and 2 August in the Amsterdam Pipe Museum.

Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam

ARCAM

Stimulus-free hours: (On request, the exhibition can be visited on weekdays outside regular opening hours. This can be requested at arcam@arcam.nl or 020 620 4878

Arcam, the architectural centre of Amsterdam

Exhibition Amsterdam Architecture Prize 2025

In the run-up to the festive presentation of the Amsterdam Architecture Prize 2025, Arcam highlights all 10 nominations in an exhibition with photography and tactile objects. Get to know the 10 projects that have a chance of winning the title 'best building in Amsterdam' or find out more about the winners of the professional prize and the public prize after the announcement.

Factor IJ

Matilde Yilmaz

SPOTLIGHT: Matilde Yilmaz

Factor IJ’s SPOTLIGHT program biweekly features emerging Amsterdam artists. From 4-14 June, Factor IJ shines the SPOTLIGHT on Matilde Yilmaz. Maltilde is a third-year student at the designLAB department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Through her textile works she explores tradition, identity, and emancipation, reclaiming her grandmother’s handwork as a language of care, memory, and resistance. Location: Factor-IJ, Pampuslaan 11, IJburg, Amsterdam.

Het Zuiderzeemuseum

Zuiderzee Museum

Between yard and ship

Step into the rich history of the Zuiderzee and discover how shipping has shaped the lives of people and the environment.

Volendams Museum

onderdeel muziek expositie

onderdeel Maurice Sijs

Exhibition on Volendam music and paintings by Maurice Sijs

In addition to the music exhibition, there is now also an exhibition of paintings by the Belgian painter Maurice Sijs. There are also various scenes on display, showing how Volendammers worked and lived. The exhibition also contains music and film.

NDSM Fuse

Ruimschoots

NDSM Fuse makes room for the exhibition Ruimschoots and shows the multidisciplinary work of MKXtra Academy for the Arts 2025, created by Carina van Kraay, Ine Buuron, Gieneke Spoelstra, Marliek, Ivonne Bouwens and Selma Susanna.

Lieve Stad 2000-2025

Amsterdam feels like a village when you look at the photos of city photographer Nico Boink. And that in the best sense of the word. People care for each other, from Zuid-Oost to Nieuw-West. They do not look arrogantly Amsterdamish, but uninhibited and familiar into his lens. His work is at display in NDSM Fuse.

Flower Art Museum

Werk van Lon Buttstedt

Werk van Ursula van de Bunte

The Element of Surprise

What happens when art and nature meet at the intersection of humour, wonder and alienation? The exhibition "The Element of Surprise" takes visitors on a playful journey through works in which nature comes to life in surprising ways.

MAI Gallery

Kamagurka: 'Bert schrijft een boek'

Exhibition Kamagurka and other NRC cartoonists

Eight cartoonists for NRC such as Kamagurka, Fokke & Sukke's Jean-Marc van Tol, Paulien Cornelisse, Olivia Ettema, Eliane Gerrits, Annabel Keijzer, Ellen de Bruin exhibit cartoons and drawings from the newspaper and new paintings at the exhibition Heavy Pictorial, curated by NRC art editor Paul Steenhuis.

Atelier K84

Metamorfose, Grote Nachtpauwoog I

Metamorfose, Pauwoogpijlstaart II

Solo-expo Metamorphosis by Pim Zwier in Atelier K84

From 30 May to 28 June 2025, the breathtaking exhibition Metamorphosis by filmmaker, media artist and photographer Pim Zwier can be admired in art space Atelier K84 on the Keizersgracht. Metamorphosis is a fascinating project about butterflies and their metamorphosis, about caterpillars and their host plants. Both the photo series and fragments from the much-praised film will be on show.

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