There are 8 exhibitions on in Amsterdam worth the trip. I checked the dates, the venues and the opening hours one by one, on the museums’ own pages.
Last checked: 28 July 2026
14 February to 2 August 2026
A solo show by Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo, known for working with found objects and dismantled historical fragments, from statues to family letters, to question identity, migration and colonial memory. Not an easy show, but a serious name in conceptual art.
6 June to 26 August 2026
Every year Foam picks emerging photographers from around the world: for 2026 it's thirty, chosen from almost three thousand submissions from 107 countries. Necessarily an uneven show, but one of the fastest ways to sense where young photography is heading.
12 June to 30 August 2026
A selection of Rembrandt's etchings following the arc of a life, from birth to death, shown inside the house where he lived and worked for nineteen years. Small prints, not grand paintings, but seeing them in the real rooms changes how you look at them.
13 February to 6 September 2026
Two shows in one, developed with the Smithsonian American Art Museum: David Levinthal's photographs of staged miniature dioramas from war and the American West, plus, from 25 March, a set of Chicano prints. Unusual for a museum once called Hermitage Amsterdam.
19 June to 13 September 2026
Nine rooms trace Ed van der Elsken's career, from 1950s reportage to his 1980s photo books. Beyond the famous prints, there are contact sheets marked in red pen and previously unseen book dummies behind that raw street style.
19 June to 13 September 2026
One hundred fifty original drawings by the illustrator behind Jip and Janneke, Pluk van de Petteflet and decades of cartoons for the newspaper Het Parool: a graphic style that shaped everyday Dutch visual culture well beyond children's books.
5 June to 25 October 2026
Thirteen steel sculptures by Carel Visser, some up to eight metres tall, installed outdoors in the Rijksmuseum gardens and free to see without a museum ticket. First time this annual garden show focuses on a single Dutch sculptor.
22 May to 8 November 2026
Thirty chocolate sculptures and embroidered works by CATPC, the Congolese collective working from a reclaimed plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The title jokes, but the subject is serious: colonial cocoa exploitation, proceeds funding reforestation.
Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.