May 2026
May 2026 at a glance: 2 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 6 more were on view across the city.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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

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.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.