Your guide to the arts in Amsterdam: exhibitions, plays and musicals, and concerts and gigs. Plus, discover what’s on at galleries, museums and cinemas across the city.
For two weeks, from December 17 through January 2, the RAI Amsterdam transforms into the Netherlands’ largest winter wonderland for the Amsterdam Winter Paradise. The event offers plenty of fun for young...
Where a century ago people stayed away out of sheer fear of poison and explosions, today lies the beating cultural heart of Amsterdam. The monumental Gashouder reopens with an underground space capable of...
While the rest of the Netherlands was building castles surrounded by marshy moats, a rare phenomenon arose around 1075 on the Heunsberg in Limburg. From this massive hilltop castle, the lords of Valkenbur...
On March 23, 1870, Simon Philip Goudsmit opened the doors of Magazijn De Bijenkorf at Nieuwendijk 132. His business was straightforward: a modest haberdashery with four employees and shelves full of yarn,...
From November 18 through 22, 2026, the capital will be all about contemporary visual art during Amsterdam Art Week. More than 250 artists will showcase their work at over 75 locations. Major museums ch...
From the outside, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40 looks like an ordinary Amsterdam canal-side house. Yet behind this facade lies one of the capital’s best-kept secrets. In 1663, stocking merchant Jan Hartman sec...
After nineteen years on Amsterdam’s Bickersgracht, Jeroen Pauw has finally sold his distinctive warehouse home. The 66-year-old TV host listed the two upper floors for sale in May and finalized the sale i...
Anyone walking along the Postjeskade in De Baarsjes will, at first glance, see only a tiny brick house measuring barely six square meters. Now that the meter-high ivy has been cleared away after years of...
With venues like Café Alto and Café De Engelbewaarder, and countless festivals including Jazzfest and the Super-Sonic Jazz Festival, the “Venice of the North” has truly made a name for itself as a jazz ci...
For decades, the Netherlands swore by familiar classics from the fry-up counter. Anyone with a quick hunger would grab a croquette from the wall at FEBO or pick up a hot HEMA smoked sausage. Back then, sh...