From mining to Moroccan art and majesty: 11 great things to do in May

3 days, 1 hour ago

Ice sculptures celebrating Amsterdam's history at the "Art Below Zero" exhibition

NL Times

A new exhibition featuring intricate ice sculptures inspired by Amsterdam's history and iconic landmarks opens this weekend at the Central Market Hall in Amsterdam-West. Titled Art Below Zero, the show presents the work of international ice sculptors, showcasing sculptures of Anne Frank, Johnny Jordaan, the canals, and the Royal Palace on Dam Square. In celebration of the city’s 750th anniversary, …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Amsterdam Museum celebrates women’s contributions to city’s history

NL Times

The Amsterdam Museum is set to honor the often-overlooked contributions of women to the city’s history with a new exhibition marking Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary. The museum aims to highlight the vital role women have played in shaping the city, countering what it calls the male-dominated narratives found in traditional history books. This exhibition seeks to fill that gap in the …

Amsterdam Women Museum

2 weeks, 2 days ago

H'ART Museum celebrates Amsterdam's 750th anniversary with an exhibition

NL Times

The H'ART Museum is going to showcase an exhibit celebrating Ajax as a city of art in honor of its 750th anniversary. Dozens of works can be seen in “Happy Birthday Amsterdam” from Wednesday, with 75 artists showcased, including Ferdinand Bol, Piet Mondriaan, Karel Appel, George Hendrik Breitner, Ed van der Elsken, RIneke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, and Marina Abramovic. "From …

Amsterdam Dam

3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Rijksmuseum bares all on new online art platform

Dutch News

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has launched Collectie Online, an online publicly accessible platform comprised of 800,000 works of art in high-definition pixel format, 500,000 books and 800 metres of documentation. The museum said the platform is “setting a new standard for sharing heritage data”, allowing people to search, download and share images and information. To link the available collection data, …

Museum Rijksmuseum

4 weeks ago

Rotterdam returns colonial art pieces to Indonesia

NL Times

The municipality of Rotterdam will return art pieces from colonial times to Indonesia. The objects were confiscated during military actions by the Royal Dutch East Indies Army at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. “Rotterdam recognizes that the art pieces that we are returning were never ours and belong in Indonesia,” said the alderman responsible …

Objects Indonesia Return Rotterdam

1 month, 1 week ago

Free entrance to new sculpture garden in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

NL Times

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam will unveil a new sculpture garden on Saturday in honor of Amsterdam's 750th anniversary. The new sculpture garden is freely accessible during the day and can be seen in the evening behind an illuminated glass facade on the Museumplein. "Until the turn of the century, the sculpture garden was a popular and frequently visited place …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

20 Years Later: Amsterdam Commemorates Theo van Gogh's Murder

NL Times

The article commemorates the 20th anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam. The event will be held at the site of the incident, in Oosterpark and De Balie, and will be open to everyone. The commemoration is part of the Freethinkers Festival and will feature a performance by Katja Schuurman and Olga Zuiderhoek, among others.

Law Crime History Biography Amsterdam

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Rediscovering African Art: A Journey Through History and Culture

China Daily

An exhibition titled 'African Art: A New Rediscovery' is showcasing over 200 works of art from 18th and 19th century Africa. The exhibition explores the influence of traditional African arts and crafts on the development of modern art, with a focus on the aesthetics and interpretations of objects of daily life by renowned artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

Culture History Global Art Beijing

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Art or rubbish? Dutch museum saves unique hand-painted beer can artwork discarded as trash

Hindustan Times

A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin thinking it was trash. The work, entitled "All The Good Times We Spent Together" by French artist Alexandre Lavet, appears on first glance to be two discarded and dented beer tins. Dutch museum …

Museum Dutch Museum Budding Bin

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Museum project returns local treasures to their finding places

Dutch News

Archeological museum Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden in Leiden has started a project to return 150 artefacts to the places they were found so more people can enjoy them. Since 2015 it is up to the culture minister which museum is allocated an important artefact but the Leiden museum still holds many finds. “The national collection belongs to everyone and that is …

Museum Rmo Project Return

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Museum project returns local treasures to their finding places

Dutch News

Archeological museum Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden in Leiden has started a project to return 150 artefacts to the places they were found so more people can enjoy them. Since 2015 it is up to the culture minister which museum is allocated an important artefact but the Leiden museum still holds many finds. “The national collection belongs to everyone and that is …

Museum Rmo Returns Local

7 months ago

Manahahtáanung or New Amsterdam? Tackling 400 years of history

Dutch News

While for many, 400 years of connection between Old Amsterdam and New is a celebratory anniversary, for “Manhattan’s” indigenous Lenape people, it’s the perfect time to set the record straight. “And that,” he says, “was the difference between our understanding of land ownership.” Stonefish was speaking on the eve of the opening of a new exhibition, Manahahtáanung or New Amsterdam?, …

History Amsterdam Exhibition Dutch Indigenous Museum New York

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Exploring Van Gogh: A journey through art and mind with immersive experience

Hindustan Times

No matter how much one "immerses" oneself in Van Gogh, thanks to technology, nothing will beat the experience of standing in front of the original, say, 'Wheatfield with Crows' and getting lost in the exquisite loneliness that Vincent Van Gogh captures in that double-square canvas. The Real Van Gogh Immersive Experience showcases the Dutch master's art in a 30-minute show, …

Art Bengaluru Experience Van Gogh Immersive Gogh Exploring Van

8 months ago

The National Holocaust Museum and me: where past meets present

Dutch News

As Jews worldwide gather around the Seder table this week for Passover, recounting the biblical story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt, Lauren Comiteau reflects on injustices past and present, adding a second helping of bitter herbs to her own Seder plate. There was Dutch king Willem-Alexander wearing a yarmulke and talking about how Sobibor began in the …

Holocaust Dutch Netherlands National Museum Jewish Israel

9 months, 2 weeks ago

The best museum and art exhibitions to visit this Easter

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. William Blake’s Universe is at the Fitzwilliam Museum until 19 May 2024, free London Cute open image in gallery Ginger …

Art Motherhood London Exhibition National British Work

9 months, 2 weeks ago

A new Holocaust Museum shows how three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported and killed

Associated Press

AMSTERDAM — The Dutch resistance spirited newborn Flip Delmonte away after his parents were detained by Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands in World War II. On Tuesday, the 80-year-old Delmonte attended the official preview of the Netherlands’ National Holocaust Museum, pointing proudly at a picture he donated of himself after the war. “This is something that they chose to wear, …

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10 months, 1 week ago

After Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch master Frans Hals gets a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “He was not a sober painter,” said Friso Lammertse, …

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1 year ago

Rembrandt portraits that were privately held for 200 years go on show in Amsterdam

Hindustan Times

After nearly 200 years in a private collection, a pair of small portraits by 17th century Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn went on display Wednesday after a long-term loan to the Netherlands’ national art and history museum. The Rijksmuseum said the portraits of Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife Jaapgen “disappeared from view for almost two centuries, before …

Dutch Museum Rembrandt Portraits 200 Years

1 year ago

Rotterdam's Summer Carnival recognized as intangible heritage on UNESCO list

NL Times

UNESCO has added the Rotterdam Summer Carnival to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Rotterdam Summer Carnival was already on the Dutch list of intangible heritage. “The Rotterdam Summer Carnival is tied to people’s cultural roots and their emancipation, bolstering individuality, expression, and self-worth,” UNESCO said. “By uniting groups of different backgrounds, it also fosters acceptance of …

List Unesco Rotterdam Intangible Heritage Summer Carnival Carnival Recognized

1 year, 3 months ago

Amsterdam: The European capital fighting bad tourists

BBC

Amsterdam: The European capital fighting bad tourists John Kellerman/Alamy Amsterdam: The European capital fighting bad tourists The Dutch capital is only home to about 800,000 people but draws up to 20 million tourists a year. frans lemmens/Alamy Amsterdam's fabled brown bars are akin to old-school neighbourhood dive bars "I think this is just an amazing time to be at a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Amsterdam museum settles with Belgian magazine on new name H'ART

NL Times

The Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam has reached a settlement with the Belgian HART magazine about the museum’s future name. The museum announced it would change its name to H’ART Museum on September 1, after breaking ties with the Russian Hermitage Museum. “The consultation between the parties has led to the art magazine guaranteeing the independence of the editors by changing …

Art Museum Magazine Its Name

1 year, 5 months ago

Dutch to return colonial treasures to Indonesia, Sri Lanka

The Hindu

The Netherlands said Thursday it will hand back hundreds of colonial-era artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka, including a haul of treasure and a gem-encrusted bronze cannon. The decision to return some 478 objects followed recommendations by a government-appointed commission last year looking into illegal Dutch colonial acquisitions now being displayed in museums in the Netherlands. Some of the items …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Dutch museums will return art and artifacts that were looted from Sri Lanka and Indonesia

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

Krentenwegge: the list of Dutch traditions just got longer

Dutch News

The official list of Dutch traditions has just become longer as nine new ones have been entered into the national Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory. The wildly divergent items include Keti Koti, the annual remembrance ceremony and festival which mark the end to slavery on July 1, Carbidschieten, where milk churns are blown up using a mix of carbide and water …

Dutch

1 year, 5 months ago

Krentenwegge: the list of Dutch traditions just got longer

Dutch News

The official list of Dutch traditions has just become longer as nine new ones have been entered into the national Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory. The wildly divergent items include Keti Koti, the annual remembrance ceremony and festival which mark the end to slavery on July 1, Carbidschieten, where milk churns are blown up using a mix of carbide and water …

Dutch

1 year, 6 months ago

Tattoo artists set up shop in Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam from Monday

NL Times

This week, the tattoo artists of the famous Amsterdam tattoo parlor Schiffmacher & Veldhoen Tattooing will set up shop at the Rembrandt House Museum. From Monday until June 25, you can get one of several designs, including original etchings by Rembrandt and his signature and monogram, at the Dutch master’s former home. “An old tattoo artist once called tattoos ‘The …

Art Tattoo Work Rembrandt

1 year, 6 months ago

Exit through the museum gift shop, suggests Anita Ratnam

The Hindu

My children and friends know that I must make that mandatory stop at the museum shop if I am travelling abroad. There is a deep local engagement you find at a museum store and, on returning home, the joy in placing each piece of contemporary jewellery purchased in narrative context. Jewellery has played an important role in museum shops across …

India Museum Piece

1 year, 7 months ago

Haarlem city guide: Where to eat, drink, shop and stay in Amsterdam’s less crowded neighbour

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy When you tell people you’ve been to Haarlem, they usually think of the Harlem neighbourhood in …

Dutch Netherlands Museum Shop Van Haarlem

1 year, 9 months ago

Man with metal detector finds 1,000-year-old jewelry in Noord-Holland city

NL Times

A man with a metal detector found thousand-year-old gold jewelry and 39 silver coins in Hoogwoud in 2021. The jewelry - four decorated gold pendants shaped like a crescent moon and two pieces of gold leaf that fit together - was already two centuries old by then. “Gold jewelry from the High Middle Ages is extremely rare in the Netherlands,” …

Jewelry Netherlands Museum Holland Metal Detector

1 year, 9 months ago

Rotterdam Museumnacht010 attracts more than 10,000 visitors

NL Times

The annual festival Museumnacht010 in Rotterdam attracted over 10,000 visitors on Saturday night. From Atelier Galerij Herenplaats to Verhalenhuis Belvédère, or from the Nederlands Fotomuseum to Het Nieuwe Instituut, people were able to visit interesting exhibitions as well as Karaoke events during the museum festival, according to Indeebuurt. It's great to see that more and more young visitors are finding …

Museum Rotterdam Museumnacht010

1 year, 9 months ago

DutchNews podcast – The World Economic Phallus Edition – Week 9 2023

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep our stocks of drop, oude kaas and stroopwafels healthy? The systematic failure to protect Groningen residents from earthquakes and witnesses in gangland trials from being murdered in broad daylight were laid bare in two damning reports this week. We unearth the village scandal behind a portrait painted by Vincent van Gogh shortly …

Dutch Groningen

1 year, 9 months ago

DutchNews podcast – The World Economic Phallus Edition – Week 9 2023

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep our stocks of drop, oude kaas and stroopwafels healthy? The systematic failure to protect Groningen residents from earthquakes and witnesses in gangland trials from being murdered in broad daylight were laid bare in two damning reports this week. We unearth the village scandal behind a portrait painted by Vincent van Gogh shortly …

Dutch Groningen

1 year, 10 months ago

Continue This Thread – Fashion designers give voice to the ‘whispered language’ of needlework

Dutch News

A new exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel, guest curated by Amsterdam-based designers Karim Adduchi and Tess van Zalinge, enlivens the once-fusty subject of needlework and explores the power of embroidery to innovate, activate and heal. It is 2022 and in a depot in Amsterdam Noord, fashion designers Tess van Zalinge and Karim Adduchi are browsing the Amsterdam …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam ends plans to hold the Uitmarkt on Museumplein moving forward

NL Times

The annual Uitmarkt festival will no longer be held on the Museumplein in Amsterdam starting with this year's edition. Research commissioned by the foundation has shown that "an Uitmarkt in one central location no longer meets the goal of offering a broad and diverse range of art and culture to as many people as possible under the to draw attention." …

Moving Forward Uitmarkt

1 year, 10 months ago

King’s Day 2023: Rotterdam announces more plans for Royal Family’s visit

NL Times

Rotterdam will treat King Willem-Alexander and his family to a 1-kilometer-long tour from the Afrikaanderwijk, across the Nieuwe Maas, to the Binerotte in the city center on King’s Day. “This walking route, plus the water crossing, will truly show Rotterdam’s most versatile side,” the city announced Monday. The King and his family will also walk through the Markthal, the largest …

City King Rotterdam

1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

Associated Press

AMSTERDAM — Some art lovers make it a mission to visit and view as many works as possible by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Rijksmuseum General Director Taco Dibbits believes the exhibition provides a chance for visitors to immerse themselves in the exquisite interior scenes for which Vermeer is best known including “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “The Milkmaid,” …

Art Amsterdam Exhibition Museum New York Works Paintings

1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Rijksmuseum General Director Taco Dibbits believes the exhibition provides …

Art Amsterdam Exhibition Museum New York Works Paintings

1 year, 10 months ago

DutchNews podcast – The Burnt Kroket Burial Mounds Edition – Week 4 2023

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep our stocks of drop, bessenjenever and stroopwafels healthy? A feast of ophef this week as the widow of singer André Hazes sues a juice channel presenter who called her a ‘gecremeerd kroket’ while Belgium’s prime minister gets his flags in a twist. Richard de Mos rolls up in a garish stretch limousine …

Dutch Burial Mounds

1 year, 10 months ago

DutchNews podcast – The Burnt Kroket Burial Mounds Edition – Week 4 2023

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep our stocks of drop, bessenjenever and stroopwafels healthy? A feast of ophef this week as the widow of singer André Hazes sues a juice channel presenter who called her a ‘gecremeerd kroket’ while Belgium’s prime minister gets his flags in a twist. Richard de Mos rolls up in a garish stretch limousine …

Dutch Burial Mounds

1 year, 10 months ago

Citizens archaeology project finds hundreds of new burial mounds

Dutch News

A Dutch archaeological project in which thousands of amateur sleuths combed specialised maps and high resolution photographs has led to 1200 more possible bronze age burial mounds in the Utrecht and Veluwe region being found. ‘We have found so much more than we expected a few years ago, and that is really down to so many people coming forward to …

Project Kaptijn

1 year, 10 months ago

Citizens archaeology project finds hundreds of new burial mounds

Dutch News

A Dutch archaeological project in which thousands of amateur sleuths combed specialised maps and high resolution photographs has led to 1200 more possible bronze age burial mounds in the Utrecht and Veluwe region being found. ‘We have found so much more than we expected a few years ago, and that is really down to so many people coming forward to …

Project Kaptijn

1 year, 11 months ago

Dutch history teachers think children should learn about slavery from the age of 7

NL Times

Marjan de Groot-Reuvekamp, the head of the association of history teachers in the Netherlands, is advocating for primary schools to start teaching children about the history of slavery in the Netherlands at an early age. “The critical approach to information about our own past is best started at an early age," said De Groot-Reuvekamp, who is trying to find new …

Children Dutch Slavery Netherlands Colonial History

2 years, 1 month ago

Hague museum discovers painting acquired a century ago is a Rembrandt

NL Times

The Museum Bredius in The Hauge discovered that an oil sketch titled Raising the Cross that it has had in its collection for years is a Rembrandt. Museum director Abraham Bredius bought the oil sketch a century ago, assuming it to be by Rembrandt van Rijn. Jerome Giltaij, former chief curator of ancient art at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, came …

Museum Painting Rembrandt Oil Sketch Raising The Cross Museum Bredius

2 years, 2 months ago

From Klimt to Dutch weirdness: 12 great things to do in October

Dutch News

Autumn is upon us, so what better thing to do that check out the highlights of the October cultural calendar. Website Set Rick free The InPlayers are back at Mike’s Badhuistheater in Amsterdam with another interactive mystery featuring ex-private eye Rick Archer. Website Queue for Klimt The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has reserved a goodish amount of time for …

Art Dutch Museum Japanese Works Rick Van

2 years, 2 months ago

From Klimt to Dutch weirdness: 12 great things to do in October

Dutch News

Autumn is upon us, so what better thing to do that check out the highlights of the October cultural calendar. Website Set Rick free The InPlayers are back at Mike’s Badhuistheater in Amsterdam with another interactive mystery featuring ex-private eye Rick Archer. Website Queue for Klimt The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has reserved a goodish amount of time for …

Art Dutch Museum Japanese Works Rick Van

2 years, 3 months ago

Summer in the city: The Dutch News crew's favourite museums

Dutch News

The Netherlands might have lots of tourists, but with half the Dutch population decanted into France, Spain and Turkey, summer can be a great time to visit a museum. Brandon Hartley Nobels Nostalgisch Museum is a the Dutch version of the sort of roadside ‘museum’ that once lined the highways of America. Definitely not for every taste, but I’m sure …

Dutch Museum

2 years, 3 months ago

Summer in the city: The Dutch News crew's favourite museums

Dutch News

The Netherlands might have lots of tourists, but with half the Dutch population decanted into France, Spain and Turkey, summer can be a great time to visit a museum. Brandon Hartley Nobels Nostalgisch Museum is a the Dutch version of the sort of roadside ‘museum’ that once lined the highways of America. Definitely not for every taste, but I’m sure …

Dutch Favourite Museums

2 years, 4 months ago

Summer sightseeing in the Netherlands: our favourite tips for tourists

Dutch News

The Netherlands is a great place for a summer holiday, and you get to avoid the crowds at Schiphol as well. I spent a substantial chunk of my childhood summers in the theme parks that populate Southern California, so I actually get wistfully nostalgic for standing in long lines in the hot sun just to get zipped around while surrounded …

Netherlands

2 years, 4 months ago

Summer sightseeing in the Netherlands: our favourite tips for tourists

Dutch News

The Netherlands is a great place for a summer holiday, and you get to avoid the crowds at Schiphol as well. I spent a substantial chunk of my childhood summers in the theme parks that populate Southern California, so I actually get wistfully nostalgic for standing in long lines in the hot sun just to get zipped around while surrounded …

Netherlands

2 years, 4 months ago

Sino-Dutch art exhibition marks key anniversary of diplomatic relations

China Daily

Chinese and Dutch artists held an art exhibition on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between China and the Netherlands. "I believe art can bring people closer－people from the East and the West, people from developing and developed countries, Chinese and Dutch," Chinese Ambassador to the Netherlands Tan Jian said at the opening ceremony of the exhibition. …

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From mining to Moroccan art and majesty: 11 great things to do in May

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