What's on in Amsterdam

Rembrandt House Museum

Fifth edition: artists Marije Gertenbach and Shani Leseman take over working studios inside Rembrandt's house, with visitors able to watch them at work from 13 November to 10 January.

Amsterdam Museum

Iconic 17th-century cityscapes showing how Amsterdam depicted itself as a wealthy, innovative world power as it transformed into a global trading hub.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The annual selection of the best-designed Dutch books of 2025, chosen by a professional and a student jury, in the centenary year of the first selection.

Oude Kerk

South Korean artist Mire Lee installs a moving, almost-living structure of silicone, steel, motors and liquids exploring desire, decay and transformation.

Allard Pierson

Over 200 ancient glass objects from Egypt to Rome, paired with TU Delft research into production techniques from core-winding to glassblowing.

Oude Kerk

Climb Amsterdam's oldest church tower, 67 metres up, for a panoramic view over the city and a look at centuries of the tower's history.

Rembrandt House Museum

Tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher and his team set up studio inside Rembrandt's house, inking original Rembrandt-inspired designs on visitors — the tattoo as the affordable old master.

H'ART Museum

Congolese collective CATPC shows 30 sculptures cast in cacao, palm oil and sugar, plus embroideries on cacao sacks, funding the buy-back of exhausted plantation land.

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

The London-based photographer's first museum exhibition, portraying female bodybuilders in Kerala with equal strength and softness to unsettle regional ideas of gender and beauty.

Foam Fotografiemuseum AmsterdamFree

Two-part Foam project in Amsterdam-West: Yomna El Beyaly solo at Mercatorplein (to 29 Oct) and the group show Al Nisa / Women at MAQAM (to 20 Dec), curated by Romaisa Baddar.

STRAAT Museum

A show tracing graffiti's cultural roots through names, tags, lines and repetition — the building blocks of a visual language born from movement and marking presence.

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Steps into the live restitution debate, exploring dilemmas and stories behind contested colonial-era objects.

Museum Van Loon

Four woven tapestries by Malaysian textile artist Marcos Kueh in the Red Bedroom, a last love letter to his father that echoes the canopy of the empty four-poster bed.

Rembrandt House Museum

Over 80 works on paper, from Rembrandt to living artists, tracing how printmakers and draughtsmen kept pushing techniques and materials. Visitors can draw their own work in the gallery.

Van Gogh Museum

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's print series 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon' shown at the Van Gogh Museum for the first time: warriors, lovers and mythical beings in bold colour.

Nxt Museum

A group show with LI-MA tracing the first years of MonteVideo, the Netherlands' pioneering video-art gallery, from 1970s electronic imagery to today's immersive artists.

Nxt Museum

An interactive digital-puppetry installation by The Hague studio YONK, where visitors use gestures to guide animated characters into shared stories.

Van Gogh Museum

The first retrospective in the Netherlands devoted to James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903): painter, printmaker, aesthete and enfant terrible.

Rijksmuseum

A century after de Kooning left the Netherlands for New York, a retrospective of more than 120 drawings with celebrated paintings and sculptures, made with the Art Institute of Chicago.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Pendleton's first museum exhibition in the Netherlands: eleven paintings and eight large-scale drawings exploring abstract form, most of them never shown before.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Landmark retrospective spanning more than seven decades of Kusama's work — painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, fashion, collage and happenings.

Rijksmuseum

Photographer and filmmaker Kadir van Lohuizen documents the Dutch energy transition: towering wind turbines, thick undersea cables and colossal platforms on the open sea.

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

First museum solo show of Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos, 19th Foam Paul Huf Award winner: a collective diary centred on her series Sexual Fantasies, mostly made in Beirut.

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

The Chinese photographer's first major solo show outside China: recent series on family, youth and daily style in Xinjiang, where fashion becomes a lens for social observation.

Allard Pierson

A World Pride show drawing on the archaeology, book and theatre collections to surface forgotten LGBTIQ+ stories across history.

Eye Filmmuseum

The first comprehensive Dutch exhibition on Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, gathering early, little-known and newly commissioned film works about ordinary lives in late-capitalist society.

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

Four decades of Nadav Kander's photography, from his Prix Pictet-winning Yangtze River series to portraits of Obama and David Lynch, drawn together by fragility, time and quiet intensity.

Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam (Dutch Resistance Museum)

37 paintings and two sculptures by Hella de Jonge exploring war, family trauma and collective memory rooted in her Jewish family's history.

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

A first Dutch introduction to Andrzej Steinbach's meticulously composed photography, treating seeing itself as an aesthetic problem across typologically organised series.

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

The French-Algerian artist's first solo Dutch museum show, presenting digital collages built from hundreds of photographs that explore migration, motherhood and displacement.

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

The first European museum show of a rediscovered set of 75 photographs by fashion pioneer Adolphe de Meyer, documenting his life in Venice's Palazzo Balbi-Valier between 1904 and 1909.

H'ART Museum

Over eighty works from the Centre Pompidou trace Matisse's hunt for balance between colour, form and simplicity, alongside Picasso, Rothko and Barnett Newman.

STRAAT Museum

Photographer Henry Chalfant's documentation of graffiti culture, curated by SUSO33 with archival material from the Dutch Graffiti Library linking his lens to the Dutch graffiti scene.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

An installation of more than a thousand knitted strips in gold and crimson conjures the ghost of the East Indiaman Amsterdam: gold for trade and prosperity, red for colonialism and exploitation.

Rijksmuseum

Twenty-four worn, altered and reused garments dating from 1640 to 1930, from embroidered 17th-century mules to a dress passed down through generations of the Six family.

Joods Museum (Jewish Museum, Jewish Cultural Quarter)

The golden age of magic through its Jewish illusionists, from Harry Houdini to Hans Klok, with tricks visitors can try themselves.

Allard PiersonFree

Free mini-show in the museum's Studio on Dutch DIY cassette culture, from VPRO's Radiola Improvisatie Salon to the Carcassettes label, with clips to listen to.

Amsterdam Museum

Stories of people and power: how Amsterdam's grand canal houses were financed through colonial trade and plantation slavery, told through residents and descendants of the enslaved.

Museum Willet-Holthuysen

Explores how two of the house's 18th-century residents built their wealth on plantation trade, with an audio tour guided by a descendant of an enslaved woman from Suriname's Jagtlust plantation.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

Choreographer Sedrig Verwoert traces dance in the diaspora, pairing a travelogue of his research into Winti, Kawina and Tambu in Suriname and Curacao with the dance film Strange Fruit 2.0.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

Five years of photographing the coastline from northern France to the southern Netherlands: Vanfleteren's sea shifts room by room from glassy calm through misty drift to storm.

Joods Museum (Jewish Museum, Jewish Cultural Quarter)

Five years of acquisitions in the Art Gallery, from contemporary art to objects of Jewish firms and societies and personal mementoes of Holocaust victims.

Allard Pierson

A theatre-history show on crossdressing, the Slingelandt theatre and revue star Louisette, exploring how costume and staging reshape identity.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Kexin Hao turns the corridor around the historic staircase into a body, with large anatomical drawings that read institutions as organisms, from lungs to kidney stones.

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

A tribute to disco's roots in Black, Latino and queer underground clubs, with tracks, videos, art, fashion and design celebrating freedom.