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Het Ketelhuis

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Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days)

Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days) is getting ready for its 28th edition at Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. As the largest, longest-running and most successful LGBTQ+ film festival in the Netherlands, Roze Filmdagen once again offers a broad and inclusive range of films, documentaries, and short films, supplemented with in-depth talk shows with an LGBTQ+ context. Roze Filmdagen is an eleven-day film festival in Amsterdam.  Please note: Start and end times as mentioned are an indication and subject to change.

Diverse locaties / Various locations

Tulp Festival

The 11th edition of the annual Tulip Festival will pay tribute to Amsterdam 750 in April 2025. They will be in public spaces along streets, on bridges and squares, in flower beds and parks, shopping centres and (neighbourhood) gardens. In April, Tulip Festival will make the city bloom and this photogenic harbinger of spring can be beautifully immortalised.

Amsterdam Museum

Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel

Women of Amsterdam - an Ode

The Amsterdam Museum enriches history by collecting odes to women who made the city what it is today. These odes are the basis of this exhibition, which is moving, thought-provoking and calls for the writing of even more odes.

Nationale Opera & Ballet

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Opera Forward Festival

The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) is the place to explore new and experimental opera. 
This ninth edition of the festival reflects on the past while looking ahead: how did we get here, and where do we go next? In an era of polarization, crisis, and conflict, we search for a way forward. The festival's central question asks: What aim, what future, what peace?

Plein Theater

Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam

From March 25 to 30, Plein Theater and Cat Smits Company present the 4th edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

De Nieuwe Kerk

Het dak van de stad

The roof of Amsterdam

The Roof of Amsterdam

This year the spire on the roof of the Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam will be restored. A large platform will be placed on the roof for this restoration. As part of 750 years Amsterdam, the public will have the unique opportunity to climb the roof of this monument for an unforgettable view of our capital.

King's Day

On Sunday 27 April 2025, Amsterdam will turn orange and we will celebrate King's Day, the largest event in the Netherlands. Are you going sailing on the canals with your family, going to a flea market with the whole family or going crazy with friends during one of the many parties? Everything is possible.

Vuurtoren Noordwijk

Bloemencorso Bollenstreek

Bloemencoso Bollenstreek (The Flower Parade of the Bollenstreek) is the most famous parade in the Netherlands. In 2026, the 79th Flower Parade will run from Noordwijk to Haarlem. Hundreds of thousands of spectators gather along the route to admire the colorful procession.

Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam - De Hortus

Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam (Botanical Garden)

Green Survivors

This autumn, the Hortus is going back in time, even very far back, by diving into the world of cycads. Cycads – or palm ferns, as they are also known, although they are neither palm nor fern – are among the most primitive seed plants. And they have been around for more than 270 million years! It is hard to imagine, but these primeval plants have experienced the rise and the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Rijksmuseum

In the Print Rooms of the Rijksmuseum: Ode to 750 Years of Amsterdam

The Rijksmuseum’s collection of more than 500,000 prints and drawings is one of the largest in theworld. With work spanning from 1442 to today, it includes engravings, etchings, woodcuts,lithographs and photographs. Due of the fragility of the material from which they are made wechange the selection of works in the print cabinets every six months, to tell new stories. This time weare giving particular attention to three topics: the 750th anniversary of Amsterdam, the print collagesof Michael Snijders and the drawings of Gerard de Lairesse.

American Photography

Rijksmuseum moves you to The American Dream. To the real American. To unexpected recognition. The Rijksmuseum is staging the Netherlands’ first major survey exhibition of American photography.

Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Ilona Plaum - Presence

Huis Marseille presents Presence, the first institutional solo exhibition of the Dutch artist Ilona Plaum. For this exhibition, the museum and Plaum are going all out: 40 works will be on display, some from the Huis Marseille collection, some existing work and some new work created especially for the exhibition. In Presence, Plaum lets the visitor descend into her poetic universe, in which she unsettles our perception. Only when you start to doubt, you come across an indisputable truth: doubt makes you observe and lets you experience that you exist.

STRAAT

Antigoon

Georgia Hill

Soda

Soda graffitecture

Graffitecture: Typographic Blueprints

The exhibition Graffitecture: Typographic Blueprints explores the intersection of graffiti and architecture through the work of four innovative artists: SODA, Gary Stranger, Antigoon and Georgia Hill. They combine the raw energy of graffiti with the organized elegance of architecture and design. In STRAAT, a total of around fifty works can be seen, including several installations.

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