Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Reviews (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

San Francisco, California

February 12, 2006

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Best of IgoUgo 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 ...Read more

Stedelijk Museum

by Illion

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

March 10, 2002

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Best of IgoUgo 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 ...Read more

From journal An insiders view on Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

by Mandan Lynn

Smithwick, South Dakota

August 14, 2006

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Stedelijk MuseumDaily 10:00-6:00 pmAdmission: 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 ...Read more 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.
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From journal Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art

by ms_dj

, Ontario

June 24, 2001

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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 ...Read more

From journal Ah, Amsterdam!

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art

by dglawless

lexington, Kentucky

February 27, 2001

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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 ...Read more

From journal Amsterdam a Cultural Delight

Temporary Stedelijk

by enchanta

Oosterhout, North Brabant, Netherlands

September 16, 2010

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The Stedelijk Museum is finally back to its location on the Museumplein in Amsterdam and now it is open to public, though only temporary – till January 2011. Then it will be closed once more, to finish the renovation of the old part and building of ...Read more The Stedelijk Museum is finally back to its location on the Museumplein in Amsterdam and now it is open to public, though only temporary – till January 2011. Then it will be closed once more, to finish the renovation of the old part and building of a new wing. This last triggers my interest: it is planned to be made in a form of a huge bath-tube. Should be funny.
So, the building is still not finished, but the museum continues to please the art-lovers with different project and exhibitions. This autumn the Museum hosts the temporarily program, 2 exhibitions of contemporary art. Unfortunately the works from the collections are not to be seen, but those two exhibitions are interesting as well.
What is special about this temporary opening is that several halls of the museum are empty. Some people are angry: they ask each other: where is the art? However my personal opinion is: great! A walk through the white halls is an extraordinary experience: you really feel yourself inside of the museum and have a chance to enjoy it from architectural point of view. Strange was it, but I liked it.
The project is also very interactive - visitors can so-to-say "participate" in some art-works, even be a part of them, like On Kawara's Million Years (people can come and read the year-numbers during one hour (one man and one women do it in turns), which is a part of the project). I tried it myself and it was amazing, something very different from what you experience in your daily life.
For the rest - it was reasonably interesting. And above all - it is wonderful, that even being closed, and going through a difficult phase of renovation, the museum is still trying to be present in the cultural life. My respect.
P.S. To add some facts about the visiting for those who will have the opportunity to do it: it's open from 10 to 17, the price is 10 euro (5 for students), on Thursdays it's open till 22 and there is usually some special program every Thursday evening. Address: Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam.
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