There are 2 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: 21 September 2026
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.
2 exhibitions that have not opened yet, but whose dates are already announced.
3 October 2026 to 14 February 2027
With the Centre Pompidou closed until 2030, more than eighty works from its collection come to Amsterdam: Matisse, from La Blouse roumaine to The Violinist at the Window, beside Picasso, Bonnard and Rothko. A chance Paris cannot offer now.
9 October 2026 to 17 January 2027
De Kooning returns to the Netherlands a century after emigrating to New York. More than a hundred and twenty works put drawing at the centre of all his art, beside Excavation and Woman I, and two canvases hang in the Gallery of Honour near the Night Watch.
It is always these 4, and I check them one by one. When a venue has nothing on I say so, with the date I checked: it is something you would otherwise have to look up museum by museum.
| Venue | Status |
|---|---|
| H'ART Museum | exhibition on |
| Rembrandthuis (Rembrandt House Museum) | nothing on, checked on 21 September 2026 |
| Rijksmuseum | opens on 9 October 2026 |
| Rijksmuseum (giardini) | exhibition on |
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.