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“Versterken van het verdienvermogen is een noodzakelijke voorwaarde om de arbeidsmarktpositie van werkenden in de sector te verbeteren. Martin Verboom deelt graag wat op dit vlak uit de evaluatie van de Arbeidsmarktagenda Culturele en Creatieve Sector kwam. Platform ACCT smeedt met partners in de sector een coalitie om de prioriteiten voor de komende jaren op te pakken.” Dit was waarom… 

Pauline de Groot Festival: Performing the Archive

From 13 to 17 November 2024, the Plein Theatre will host the Pauline de Groot Festival. A unique occasion where the legacy of dance pioneer Pauline de Groot will be put in the full light. The significance of her work as a dance innovator in the Netherlands deserves special attention: radically and self-willed, she helped shape the dance landscape from the 1960s onwards.... 

The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings | Imagining the Future of Europe

From 7 to 9 November, The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings of espaço agora now concludes with an artistic event in east and north Lisbon. Over three days, a multidisciplinary programme on the future of Europe will focus on artistic creation and cultural reflection. Ee important part of the programme are dialogues between artists and neighbourhood residents in Lisbon. One of... 

Holland Festival celebrates Amsterdam 750 with performance Otemba - Daring Women 

Music theatre brings 17th-century painting from the Rijksmuseum to life in a conversation about female indomitability On the occasion of the kick-off of the anniversary year Amsterdam 750, we are pleased to announce in advance a festival performance focusing on the complex history of the city and the country. With this performance, the Holland Festival aims to draw from the arts - painting, music, theatre and design - to... 

Antigone a timeless tragedy of resistance: What sacrifices are we willing to make for our morality?

Theatre Group Alum will tour from 4 December 2024 with the famous tragedy by Sophocles. In a world where power, principles and justice clash daily, Antigone poses questions that are more urgent today than ever. The play, directed by Erik Snel exposes the eternal struggle between laws and moral obligations, touching on themes that directly address contemporary... 

Green light for renovation of Amsterdam Museum 

Supreme court rules: renovation to start The Council of State has given the City of Amsterdam the green light on appeal to renovate the main location of the Amsterdam Museum on Kalverstraat. The Amsterdam Museum will have more and much better space for collection and public, become more sustainable and fully accessible. The renovation, which is due to this ruling by the Council of... 

Marriage proposal at Amsterdam Museum

In the normally quiet museum hall, she uttered a cry of excitement. Amidst all the artworks stood a work of art made especially for her. Next to it, her partner was on her knees. Anjulie was proposed to by her friend Geraldine at the Amsterdam Museum. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Anjulie unsuspectingly visited with her partner Geraldine, living in Amsterdam... 

Amsterdam Museum launches 'This City is a Museum' campaign

The Amsterdam Museum will launch its corporate campaign This city is a museum in September and October 2024. With the campaign, the Amsterdam city museum puts the whole city on a pedestal and pays tribute to Amsterdam, which will celebrate its 750th anniversary from 27 October. All of Amsterdam has museum value "With our campaign This city is a museum, we invite... 

'Cabinet still allocates extra money for Twente museums', Tubantia cried. But that is not so

It was a remarkable report, this morning. According to newspaper Tubantia, the new cabinet was still willing to make extra money available for regional museums in Twente. The amount would be 1.5 million euros, earmarked to set up a joint presentation of Twente's history by De Museumfabriek in Enschede and Techniekmuseum Oyfo in Hengelo. According to... 

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Cultural objects returned to country of origin Indonesia again

The Netherlands is returning 288 objects from the National Collection at the request of Indonesia. During the colonial period, these objects, of cultural significance for Indonesia, were wrongfully taken to the Netherlands. Minister Eppo Bruins (OCW) has decided on the return. In doing so, he is following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee chaired by Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You. The works are located... 

Amsterdam Museum and Imagine IC organise international ICOM event

Staff of city museums around the world come to Amsterdam This year, the Amsterdam Museum, together with Imagine IC, is organising the International Conference of City Museums and Contemporary Heritage Practice. This event is initiated from ICOM, the International Council of Museums. Each year, a different museum gets the honour of hosting the event. After Moscow (2015), Mexico City (2017),... 

The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings - Boat trips on four European rivers launched

Artists depict the future of Europe On 27 August, the first of four boats with an artistic crew taking part in The European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings sailed up the Danube in Baja, Hungary. This marks the start of four sailing trips on four European rivers - the Danube, Vistula, Rhine and Tagus - crossing 11 countries.... 

Amsterdam Museum collects odes to women

Anyone can create an ode to add to the city's story The Amsterdam Museum is launching a digital platform where anyone can share a story about a woman who has had an impact on Amsterdam. For centuries, women have been underrepresented in the city's story. The Amsterdam Museum thinks it is high time to change this and calls on everyone, from within... 

Launching cultural INTROWEEK MBO

The Amsterdam Platform Cultuureducatie MBO, on the initiative of the cultural coordinators of ROC Amsterdam and Flevoland and Mediacollege Amsterdam, together with the Amsterdam Museum, Stichting Museumnacht Amsterdam, MOCCA expertise centre for cultural education and CJP, is organising the first cultural introduction week especially for MBO students in Amsterdam. The cultural INTROWEEK MBO will be festively launched on Tuesday 3 September 2024 at the Amsterdam Museum in the presence of... 

"Musical De Tocht announces bankruptcy", but whose fault is it really? Or is it Elfsteden magic?

It's cucumber time and many journalists are on holiday, so Culture Press has to turn up to interpret something that doesn't smell quite right. This time it is the press statement the directors of De Tocht have put on their website. In it, they explain how it was possible that this musical company, Friesland's pride, could suddenly go bankrupt. In a nutshell: it was not... 

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International research facility for Holocaust research step closer

The arrival of an international research facility for Holocaust research - headquartered in the Netherlands - is a step closer. So write Minister Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) and State Secretary Karremans (Health, Welfare and Sport) in a letter to the Lower House. The cabinet has submitted the plan for this on behalf of several countries, and in cooperation with the NIOD, among others... 

Dacia, realm of cosmic stardust

A room full of beautiful shiny gold and silver objects, from coins to swords. With so many shiny items, the magpie in me wakes up. But instead of gold, I take home knowledge: insight into a culture that has been 'forgotten'. Dacia - Realm of gold and silver at the Drents Museum is one such exhibition that I am happy to... 

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Amsterdam Museum opens exhibition on new North Holland portraits

From 26 July to 10 November 2024, the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel will host the exhibition Faces of North Holland. The exhibition is the result of the collaboration project of the same name between the Amsterdam Museum and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, in which the museums searched together with residents for new and untold stories from the province. During the project,... 

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Imara Limon new head of curators Amsterdam Museum

Curator and art historian Imara Limon (Leiden, 1988) will become head of curators and member of the Amsterdam Museum's management team from 1 July. Limon has been with the museum since 2017 and was winner of the National Museum Talent Award in the same year. She made a name for herself with projects such as the New Narratives programme line, the biennial art event Refresh Amsterdam and the current exhibition Manahahtáanung or New Amsterdam? In addition to her... 

Hidden past and new insights in 'Groninger Museum 150 years - Behind the Scenes'

Hidden treasures. Like other museums, the Groninger Museum houses many objects that deserve to be exhibited. Interesting paintings, sculptures or archaeological splendour of which visitors are unaware. Happy birthday is a treat. The Groninger Museum celebrates its hundred and fifty-year anniversary with - among other things - an exhibition in which you get a look behind the scenes. Objects... 

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Exhibition on New Amsterdam from an Indigenous perspective 

Amsterdam Museum collaborates with the Museum of the City of New York and original inhabitants of New York Four hundred years ago, the first Dutch settlers arrived in the area that is now New York. Their mission from the Dutch West India Company (WIC) was to establish the colony of New Netherland, with its capital New Amsterdam, at the southern tip of... 

"There is a wealth of new knowledge and insights in our museums"

Museums are not only a treasure chamber in which new qualities and stories can be found all the time, but also a workshop in which museum professionals and the public gain new knowledge, insights and experiences together. Museum scientific research is of great importance in deepening knowledge about the collection and examining it from the questions that today's society... 

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De Nijverheid receives Harm Lambers Building block for Special Art in Utrecht 2024

Utrecht - Last Saturday 30 March, cultural free port De Nijverheid received the Harm Lambers Building Block for Special Art in Utrecht. This honourable challenge trophy was presented by Utrecht dance company De Dansers, which received this biennial award for the first time in 2022. Praise from the jury Josephine van Rheenen of De Dansers was laudatory in the jury report on... 

Appointment of two new supervisory board members Amsterdam Museum

Robbert Maruanaija and Patricia de Weichs de Wenne have joined the supervisory board of the Amsterdam Museum. Amsterdam City Council's Alderman for Art and Culture Touria Meliani appointed the new members. Robbert Maruanaija (1986, born and living in Amsterdam) started his working life as a professional footballer and then switched to the creative sector. He explains that... 

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