From Thursday May 12th, until Monday May 16th 2016 you can visit the Food festival ‘Rollende keukens‘. The Westerpark will transform itself into one big outdoor restaurant. There will be dozens of food trucks with a big variety of food: from vegan to burgers, from waffles to deep fried insects. You don’t …
Every year on May 4th, we commemorate the victims of war. In Amsterdam there is a big commemoration at Dam Square where prominent people (for example our King and Queen) lay wreaths at the National Monument. At 8pm everybody in the whole country is silent for …
Every year, on April 27th, we celebrate King’s Day (the birthday of our King Willem-Alexander). It was formerly known as Queen’s Day. About 1 million people are celebrating this day in Amsterdam. You will find a lot of music, food and street markets all over our city. Actually, the fun already starts the night before on King’s Night. Just go downtown Amsterdam (Jordaan or Nieuwmarkt) and you will see that there is already a lot of partying and drinking beer going on.
Some pieces of advice:
– don’t try to meet up with several friends throughout the day on different locations. You don’t have a clue how crowded it gets in the city! Just enjoy your beer and enjoy the crowd.
– don’t get your hopes too high on finding an absolute gem on the street markets. Most of the stuff that is sold is crap like broken toys and second-hand clothes. And we Dutchies don’t even get embarrassed asking money for it…
– people tend to dress up in orange clothes (it is our national colour). So don’t forget your orange details.
– there is no public transport in the city center during the day, so be prepared for a long walk.
More information: http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/visiting/whats-on/kings-day/all-about-kings-day-in-amsterdam
Each year the exhibition of the World Press Photo can be visited at de Nieuwe Kerk on the Damsquare (this year from April 16th to July 10th). It is an annual photo contest that rewards photographers for the best journalistic picture of the past year and as …
You don’t have to travel all the way to Japan to see cherry blossom. Right now, you can go to the Amsterdams Forest to see cherry blossom blooming. In the year 2000 the Japanese Women’s Club donated 400 cherry trees to the city of Amstelveen (the …
If you are visiting Amsterdam in April, you will be lucky to see many tulips in the city. The aim of the Amsterdam tulip festival is to eventually plant one tulip for every citizen, this year 500.000 tulips were planted. This is the second year this festival is organised. You can follow a route by bike or by foot throughout the city. More information: http://www.tulpfestival.com
On April 9th 2016 a new museum will open its doors: the Moco Museum (Modern Contemporary Museum). The first two expositions are two legends: Banksy and Warhol. The museum is located on the Museum Square, between the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum in a beautiful villa, …
In the weekend of March 18th to March 20th, the Amsterdam Coffee Festival is organised at Westergasfabriek. You can go for a coffee and food pairing (organised by the Scandinavian Embassy), or zip a cocktail at the espresso martini bar. There are also interactive workshops, …
Every year the Nieuwe Kerk displays a religious Masterpiece from a museum or private collection. This year’s choice is ‘Calvary‘, painted by Marc Chagall in 1912. It was the first time Chagall painted a Jewish Christ on the cross. The painting is on special loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. You can see it from February 20th to April 10th at Nieuwe Kerk. More information: https://www.nieuwekerk.nl/en/exhibitions/masterpiece-2016-is-marc-chagalls-calvary/
