Exhibitions in Amsterdam

Allard Pierson

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

Allard Pierson

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.