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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

  • August 14, 2006
  • Rated 5 of 5 by Mandan Lynn from Smithwick, South Dakota
Stedelijk Museum
Daily 10:00-6:00 pm
Admission: 9,00 euros (students 4,50)

The Stedelijk is occupying a temporary home in an old post building near the Amsterdam Centraal. Its new building on Museumplein, set to be completed in 2008, will be quite a big deal. I'm sure they're looking forward to that, but in the meantime they're making do on three floors of that old building.

The Stedelijk houses, shall we say, "experimental" art. You have to go in with an open mind.

The museum starts on the second floor of the building: an exhibit on air travel. The history. The designs (flight attendant uniforms, airports, seats, even cutlery). The future. It especially focuses on the artistic element of all this practicality -- how and why things were designed the way they were.

This is where I learned about the Boeing 787, coming in 2008, and I'm already excited to fly in it. There are several videos about air travel, models of planes and airports, and lots of photographs. The flight history timeline is also especially interesting. The detailed captions are all in Dutch and English.

On the third floor we get into Andy Warhol and other artists. I saw Andy's stuff first, and it just got stranger after that. Don't miss the room with all the mutilated furniture. The video that tells the story of it all will give you nightmares. Enjoy.

There's a Saskia Olde Wolbers exhibit. She makes videos. The images look computer generated, but as it turns out she makes all the sets by hand. They're beautiful, and each video is narrated. The stories are fiction, but they're inspired by real-life situations. The exhibit includes her works "Trailer" (2005), "Interloper" (2003), "Placebo" (2002), and "Kilowatt Dynasty" (2000).

The 11th floor houses the cafe.

Despite my preferences for art by the likes of Rubens and Picasso, I really enjoyed this museum. The air travel exhibit was especially fascinated. The best part was that it wasn't even especially crowded -- I visited in the middle of August, and I often found myself in rooms all alone.

Check it out.

From journal Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

  • February 12, 2006
  • Rated 3 of 5 by honeyb from San Francisco, California
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Visited Feb 12, 2006, along with the Amstelkring Museum, Oude Kerk (Old Church), and Het Rembrandthuis (Rembrandt's House).

The Stedelijk museum exhibits works by contemporary artists. While its permanent home in the Museumplein next to the Van Gogh museum is being refurbished, exhibits are temporarily housed in an old building previously used by the post office east of the central train station. It's a short 10-minute walk past a boat turned into a hotel (the Botel) and a floating Chinese restaurant.

Currently on display until February 26, 2006 are a series of large portraits by Rineke Dijkstra. Some series portray changes over time. The Almerisa series, for example, shows how an anxious young Bosnian refugee transforms into a fashionable Dutch woman. Her other works include beach portraits, mothers and bullfighters, children in a park, Israeli soldiers, and a (rather monotonous in my opinion) video of adolescents at English and Dutch discos.

While Rineke's work was the highlight for me, I was also pleasantly surprised by "Zarin," a film shot in Morocco by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat in 2005. This is the story of the psychological breakdown of a young prostitute, which is somewhat fitting to be seen in a city where prostitution is legal.

Other exhibits on display at the time of my visit included "De Rijke/De Rooij," Mandarin Ducks and Paradocs II, but they were not of interest to me.

I highly recommend viewing Rineke's work. Shirin's film was an unexpected bonus.
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Stedelijk Museum

  • March 10, 2002
  • Rated 3 of 5 by Illion from Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum

This museum of modern art has had quite a few impressive expositions. A few years ago Dutch Queen Beatrix even composed one. She proved she is a great art lover with an impressive knowledge of modern art. It is rumoured she is a relatively good sculptor herself.
It really depends if the museum is worth a visit. Some expositions are simply horrible. This has much to do with disputed director Rudi Fuchs. Sometimes he has a stroke of genius, but on other occasions he blunders completely. Recent example is the exhibit of the works of actor Dennis Hopper. Though a fine actor, he is not a very inspiring artist. The biggest blunder was the restoration of the painting ‘Whose afraid of red, yellow and blue’ by Barnett Newman. It was restored simply with a paint roller and some house paint!
The permanent collection of the museum includes painting and sculptures, drawings and photography by Cézanne, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Malevich, Chagall, Mondriaan, Picasso, Newman, De Kooning, Liechtenstein, Merz and Newman. Many of which are permanently on display.
The museum is open daily from 11 AM until 5 PM. The museum is located next to the Van Gogh Museum and can be reached by trams 2, 5, 16 and 20, all departing from Central Station. Entrance fee for adults is € 5,00, children till 7 can enter for free, children between the ages of 7 and 16 pay € 2,50.

From journal An insiders view on Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art

  • June 24, 2001
  • Rated 3 of 5 by ms_dj from , Ontario
A coupon in our city pass brought us to the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art. We expected to find Picasso (I think there was one Picasso there) and his contemporaries. What we did find was a very graphic photography exhibition, and many paintings and other works from lesser-known artists (at least, lesser-known by us).

Graphic photography aside, the paintings were very good, and it was an interesting visit, considering we'd already been to the Rijksmuseum to see the old masters.
Check out the Stedelijk Museum on the Internet.

From journal Ah, Amsterdam!

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art

  • February 27, 2001
  • Rated 4 of 5 by dglawless from lexington, Kentucky
This is the contemporary art museum of Amsterdam. It houses works of modern Dutch painters such Koooning and Piet Mondrian. There are also many French artists such as Chagall, Renoir, Monet, and Manet. It is a beautiful building and houses a wonderful collection. phone 020/573-2737

From journal Amsterdam a Cultural Delight

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