What's on in Amsterdam

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Five outfits by artist Bas Kosters celebrating diversity and self-expression, created for the Dutch Museum Association's centenary and WorldPride.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Sixteen black wall paintings set into the rosettes above the monumental staircase, each depicting a near-extinct medium — 35mm reel, LaserDisc, cassette, CD.

Van Gogh Museum

Contemporary perspectives on Vincent's art from the museum's ReFramers collective, exploring religion, relationships and daily rituals in a search for grounding.

Royal Palace Amsterdam

Marking the 2026 state visit of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, Japanese treasures from the Dutch Royal Collections go on show in the Throne Room, tracing over 400 years of ties between the Netherlands and Japan.

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

A retrospective of Martine Gutierrez's self-portraiture and cinematic performance work, pairing never-before-seen childhood pieces with reinterpretations of Renaissance masterworks exploring identity.

Joods Museum (Jewish Museum, Jewish Cultural Quarter)

Photographer Diana Blok's project "Time Tells" traces her father's hidden Jewish past, from escaping the Holocaust to Buenos Aires, in photos, texts and film.

Amsterdam Museum · Free

Free outdoor exhibition of 16 portraits and interviews with Amsterdam Moluccans, marking 75 years since their arrival and four centuries of ties to the Moluccas.

Rijksmuseum · Free

Thirteen monumental steel sculptures by Carel Visser (1928-2015), the most influential Dutch sculptor of the twentieth century, brought together for the first time in the museum's free-to-enter gardens.

NEMO Science Museum

Temporary exhibition on video games and their role in play, social connection and creativity, with playable consoles from the Super Nintendo to the PlayStation 5.

Allard Pierson

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

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.

Allard Pierson

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

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.

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.

Allard Pierson

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

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.