Museum night in Amsterdam for me is always a memorable event. However every year, as a contradiction, i am visiting less and less museums in the one evening albeit with more passion and understanding.
If i return back 5 years ago, my aim was to get to as many museums as I can during the whole night and that was COOL. In the morning i would have partial memory of everything but the feeling of satisfaction was still in place.
As the years have passed i have visited quite a good amount of museums in Amsterdam, so the possibility to see something new was quite small. This year the plan was to cover the Oost area of the city where we are living as before we were almost never reaching it – it was a little further away from the Museumplein or Pijp, where usually you can visit Museum Van Gogh, or Rijksmuseum, or FOAM…
We started quite civilised, by going to the Tropenmuseum which has a special memory for me. Earlier in my Amsterdam adventure, when I was still chief editor of the World music department in Concertzender, I had an amazing evening with very special people from the world of music exactly there. At the time there were already talks about the impending lack of fundings for it and how difficult it was nowadays to work and have support from anybody in the cultural field.
This year the Tropenmuseum impressed me like nothing before. It had a very interesting and controversial exhibition exploring our attitude to racism with some incredible colonial art. And in addition you could visit Tropenmuseum Junior; which is a small space of corridors and exhibits devoted to Brazil. Think big and show via small details! Bravo, Tropenmuseum!
Later we went to the look at the Tattoo museum but it was closed… so we visited the Planetarium at Artis zoo! That place, as always, was super overcrowded but the show was worth waiting as you can really feel in Space. Like in the recent movie “Gravity”, the screen in the planetarium is so big, much bigger than IMAX, that when the picture changed it was like we were moving through the galaxy! – just with Dutch commentary. Maybe that was a little bit of a last drop for many people in our company as most of us agreed after it to leave home and call it for that night. Dany called it a night early and had a good sleep under the stars in the planetarium 🙂 As for us we had even more things to do on Sunday – Painting…
Yours, KleinSpace
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