New exhibitions Amsterdam Museum 

Since March 2022, the Amsterdam Museum's main location on Kalverstraat has been closed due to a large-scale renovation of the museum building, the former civilian orphanage. In the Amsterdam Museum's new temporary main location on the Amstel (Amstel 51, Hermitage building), the museum has been displaying a new permanent collection presentation since March 2021 Panorama Amsterdam see and three changing exhibitions. In the coming period, the following temporary exhibitions will open at the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel:

25 September 2022 to 23 May 2023 in Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel, Amstel 51

In the project Collecting the City (2021-2025), the Amsterdam Museum will 'collect' the stories and objects of the city of today together with communities, individuals and institutions in Amsterdam. The collected stories and objects will be displayed in the halls of Collecting the City shown. The presentations change every six months. In this second exhibition of the programme line Collecting the City the Amsterdam Museum is once again creating six months of events with three partners from the city. This time: Imagine IC (Bijlmer disaster), photographer Cleo Campert (Club RoXY) and Museum om de Hoek.

- 30 years of Bijlmer disaster. On 4 October 2022, it will be exactly 30 years since a Boeing 747 of airline El Al crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer. A far-reaching event that many people in the city today still carry with them. Together with Imagine IC, a heritage institution based in Southeast, the Amsterdam Museum engaged with Amsterdam residents about the disaster in recent months. The exhibition deals with the feelings Amsterdammers have about the disaster, how they shape remembrance and the way different generations process this trauma together. Drawings by primary school pupils of the time give insight into how children experienced this event. At the end of the exhibition, all visitors are invited to stitch together to create a patchwork of memories.

- Club RoXY. In two installations, Cleo Campert shows an ode to Club RoXY and to performing artist Zubrowka. Campert was the house photographer of Club RoXY, the iconic Amsterdam house and techno club that burned down in 1999. In an installation, she shares her memories of the club that in the 1980s and 1990s was a paradisiacal haven for anyone wanting to escape the grey outside world. A silent disco brings a micro version of the nightclub into the present. Videos and cassettes from Campert's archive create a reimagining of endless, wild night parties full of creativity and self-expression. Campert's second installation zooms in on who Club RoXY, among others, was: Zubrowka. A photo series, throne and viewing boxes offer an overview of her flamboyant appearances and humorous performances that embodied the free spirit of the night blub. In the words of Campert: "Clubbers could feast on Zubrowka. For me as a photographer, she was a delightful subject, there was always something to do with her in front of the camera. Zubrowka embodies the Muse of the RoXY."

- Museum around the corner #2: Operation live. In the last three spaces of Collecting the City will once again see a special collaboration with 'Museum de Hoek' where 23 neighbourhood museums from Amsterdam create small exhibitions in varying combinations. This time, Museum Amsterdam Noord, Historisch Archief De Baarsjes, Van Eesterenmuseum and Borneo Architecture Centre will jointly create an exhibition that looks back on a century of Amsterdam housing culture from the perspective of the present. The result is a critical reflection on the current housing situation in the four Amsterdam neighbourhoods where the neighbourhood museums are located - Van der Pekbuurt, De Baarsjes, Slotermeer and the Eastern Docklands.

The life's work of Rita Maasdamme (1944-2016) consists of hundreds of handmade fabric dolls depicting colonial history and folklore and daily life from the Dutch former colonies. In doing so, Maasdamme displayed from the 1980s a history that she and many other peers here and in the former colonies had never learned in school. From 16 October 2022, the exhibition The Maasdamme Collection on display at the Amsterdam Museum 17 three-dimensional historical scenes depicted by many puppets.

From slave trade in Paramaribo harbour, a maroon village and Tula's uprising to more contemporary scenes like a depiction of prostitution village Campo Alegre in Curaçao. Maasdamme's collection of dioramas uniquely tells visitors about the histories of the Dutch former colonies from a perspective of enslaved people, Maroons and indigenous people. The creatures and accessories are purely handcrafted and made entirely of fabric. The collection shows great craftsmanship deployed to tell an often neglected story.

In spring 2023, the Amsterdam Museum, in co-curation with fashion designers Karim Adduchi and Tess van Zalinge, will open a new fashion exhibition that zooms in on the powers of artisanal craft techniques. How can embroidery and knitting techniques provide tools to connect, express and heal? And can we still pass on craft knowledge before they fall into eternal oblivion? From new looks to never-before-exhibited objects from the Amsterdam Museum collection, the exhibition challenges visitors to (re)discover the power of classic craft techniques.

The imposing nineteenth-century double canal house Huis Willet-Holthuysen on the Herengracht will host a solo exhibition by painter Maaike Schoorel until 8 January 2022. Schoorel created work especially for the Amsterdam Museum, drawing inspiration from Louisa Willet-Holthuysen and her passion for nature and animals. Work by contemporary makers will be exhibited regularly in the historic house.