There are 4 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
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.