Explore various artifacts and artworks with a skip-the-line entry ticket to Stedelijk Museum. Enjoy your priority access and learn about modern and contemporary art.
Discover key art movements at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, also known as the most important museum of modern and contemporary art and design in the Netherlands.
Situated on Museumplein, where it first opened in 1895, it is a neighbor to the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum.
Having undergone extensive renovation, the historic Stedelijk building has been expanded with the addition of a futuristic new wing. The addition has been a huge hit with visitors since the facility’s reopening in 2012.
Your skip-the-line ticket to the Stedelijk grants you priority access to a collection of 90,000 artifacts. Admire extraordinary works by world-renowned artists, including a great number of pieces by major 20th-century Dutch artists.
Key movements in the world of art and design that are featured include Bauhaus, Amsterdam School, De Stijl, CoBrA, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimal art, and Conceptual art.
Artists represented include Appel, Cézanne, Chagall, Dumas, Kandinsky, Kienholz, De Kooning, Koons, Malevich, Matisse, Mondriaan, Picasso, Pollock, Rietveld, Sottsass, and Warhol, among others.
Temporary exhibition now on view (26 May - 4 September 2022): IT’S OUR F***ING BACKYARD - DESIGNING MATERIAL FUTURES
It’s Our F***ing Backyard spotlights our time’s greatest challenge: the climate crisis. It involves 80 projects from all over the world showing how designers can have a major impact by looking at materials in radical and new ways.
The resulting designs are responsible, but also beautiful, comfortable and unexpectedly accessible.
Urgency of the climate crisis
With many problems, people tend to think 'not in my backyard'. But the climate problem is precisely about our backyard: It's our backyard.
The exhibition expresses the urgency of the climate problem and aims to make you think differently about the use of materials and design’s social importance.
In addition to internationally established names such as Drift, Ineke Hans, Dirk van der Kooij and major producers such as Adidas and Ikea, there are also upcoming designers to discover.
Materials of the future and the power of nature
The exhibition shows that designers can make an important difference. They find new uses for waste material, such as a lamp made from orange peels and jewelry made from ocean plastic for Balenciaga.
Some projects focus on the use of natural materials, such as a fungal mycelium tunnel and flax- and bio-based resin surfboard. There’s even a light installation powered by micro-organisms that need to be fed during the exhibition period.
Through experimental research and re-inventing age-old craft techniques, designers come up with improved use of materials.
