Festivals and Films
Amsterdam What's on
7 Oct 2006-11 March 2007. The Hermitage Amsterdam hosts an exhibition of paintings from the art collections of four wealthy 18th-19th century St Petersburg citizens, each with their own preference for...
Amsterdam What's on
Street photography in Amsterdam.
8 Sept-3 Dec 2006. The Van Gogh Museum hosts an exhibition of 'Street Photography' featuring work by some of the 20th century's most famous photographers, from George Breitner, Andre Kertsz and Henri...
Amsterdam What's on
12 April-3 Sept 2006. Amsterdams Historisch Museum hosts an interactive exhibition exploring the life of the young German- Jewish refugee Anne Frank through the letters and postcards she wrote to fami...
Amsterdam What's on
24 April-18 June 2006. The annual Dutch-based World Press Photo competition, open to professional news photographers from all over the world, culminates in an exhibition which then tours 85 countries....
Amsterdam What's on
9 March-24 May 2006. The Rijksmuseum presents an exhibition of paintings initially attributed to Rembrandt and acquired by the museum as such, but whose authenticity is now in question. This unusual e...
Amsterdam What's on
Pilgrim Treasures at the Hermitage.
1 Oct 2005-26 Mar 2006. This unusual exhibition at the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam presents almost 200 art treasures brought back as souvenirs from the sanctuaries in the Holy Land. On loan from the...
Amsterdam What's on
24 Feb-18 June 2006. The Van Gogh Museum presents over 35 major paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) in the first exhibition ever to bring the...
Amsterdam What's on
26 Jan-19 Feb 2006. This year Amsterdam is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt, one of the giants in art history. The Rijksmuseum starts the year with a month-long exhibition o...
Amsterdam What's on
Henri-Cartier Bresson a Retrospective
23 Dec 2005-2 Apr 2006. French photographer Henri-Cartier Bresson died in 2004 at the age of 96. His life had spanned the 20th century from beginning to end and his photographs chronicled the politic...
Amsterdam What's on
Until 30 Nov 2006. Large-scale aerial photographs by world-famous French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand are on show outside the Amsterdam Stopera. The Earth from Above is a UNESCO-sponsored project...
Amsterdam What's on
4 Nov 2005-6 Feb 2006. The travelling exhibition of portrait photographs by Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra has arrived at the Stedelijk Museum CS, after showing in Paris, Winterthur and Barcelona....
Amsterdam What's on
5 Nov 2005. 43 of Amsterdams museums are throwing open their doors from 19.00 in the evening to 2.00 the following morning for this once-yearly event. Current and permanent exhibitions are on show al...
Amsterdam What's on
Unknown Paintings by Rembrandt.
22 Sept-4 Dec 2005. During the preparations at the Rembrandt House the Museum Het Rembrandthuis - for a major exhibition of the Dutch artists work to be held next year, four of Rembrandts previously...
Amsterdam What's on
Fifty years of photojournalism
7 Oct-7 Dec 2005. Over 100 nominators from a variety of geographical, cultural and professional backgrounds were asked to chose what they felt was the best or most memorable photo feature published in...
Amsterdam What's on
21 Oct 2005-19 Feb 2006. A subject dear to everyones heart and tastebuds is explored in depth at the Amsterdam Historisch Museum as of this month with an exhibition all about sugar. From the period w...
Amsterdam What's on
Until 11 Sept 2005. The Royal Tropical Museum KIT Tropenmuseum is one of Hollands most fascinating anthropological museums. The beautiful old building at 2 Linnaeusstraat houses eight permanent exh...
Amsterdam What's on
3 Sept-15 Oct 2005. Throughout September, creative design galleries round Amsterdam will host a series of exhibitions and events to promote designers from the Netherlands and beyond.
ARCAM, the Amste...
Amsterdam What's on
3 Sept-15 Oct 2005. The WonderWood gallery is hosting an exhibition of Unknown Plywood Classics featuring reissued designs from 1930s-50s of classical modern furniture by Marcel Breuer, Egon Eiermann...
Amsterdam What's on
10 March4 September 2005. Amsterdams 750,000 residents share their city with an astonishing variety of animal life: dogs, cats, ring-neck parakeets, herons, lions, grass snakes, pigeons, cockroaches,...
Amsterdam What's on
30 July 6 November 2005. This August in Amsterdam is dedicated to the sea, with festivals and exhibitions centred round the Sail Amsterdam Tall Ships Event. The Amsterdam Historisch Museum is taking...
