Events Amsterdam may 2012

Here are a few of the events in Amsterdam in may 2011. The events are sorted by date. Note: at the very bottom you can find events that are open throughout the month. The calendar is constantly updated.

Het Nederlands Fluitkwartet (the dutch flute quartet)
Four transverse flutes play all instruments of the böhmfluitfamilie from basflute to piccolo

Location: Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen House
Date and time: sunday, 6 may 2012, 4.45 pm

Singalong Sunday 

Location: Café ’t Mandje
Date and time: sunday 6, 13 and 27 may, 4pm

Fortune teller

Location: Café ’t Mandje
Date and time: sunday 20 may, 4pm
Luna Felice tarot reader. 15min/7,50. 

Chocolaaaa

Location: Hermitage Amsterdam, Café-restaurant Neva
Date and time: wednesday 23 may, 6.30 pm
Reservation required via +31(0)20-5307483

Paint as Rubens

Location: Hermitage Amsterdam, Hermitage for children
Date and time: saturday 26 may, 2pm

Winfried Salon: Improvisation with Karst de Jong
Discussion

Location: Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen House 
 Date and time: sunday, 27 may 2012 4.45 pm

Palatial Town Houses by the Bosporus

Location: Geelvinck Hinlopen House Date: 16 march to 11 june Photography by Martin Paternott. Exhibition on the occasion of 400 years Holland-Turkey

Belief in Nature – Flowers with a message at the Bibel Museum

Location: Bibel Museum Date: 27 april until 30 september Visitors have the opportunity to enjoy an exhibition of flower paintings from the Golden Age in one of Amsterdam’s finest canal houses. The exhibition shows the extraordinary skill with which artists such as Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jan Davidz. De Heem, Rachel Ruysch and Jan van Huysum rendered the natural world. As well as being delighted by the beauty of the paintings, visitor mays also trace the extent to which they reminded the public of the time of the work of the Creator and, by comparison, the vanity of early pleasures. The exhibition is housed in a cabal house such as would have been home to such paintings when they were first created and which gives a glimpse into how a wealthy family might have lived at that time. 

Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens - Flemish paintings from the Hermitage

Location: De Hermitage Amsterdam
Date : from 17 September 2011 to 15 june 2012
The Hermitage Amsterdam will present a stunning selection from the Flemish art collection of the St. Petersburg Hermitage. With 75 paintings and about 20 drawings, this definitive survey will include many masterpieces by the three giants of the Antwerp School, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens, supplemented by the work of well-known contemporaries. One of the highlights will be Rubens’s famous Descent from the Cross. This will be the first exhibition of this superb collection in the Netherlands. Many of the paintings to be shown were acquired by Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century; Catherine purchased first-rate collections, such as those of Crozat and Brühl, in their entirety. Originally, many of the paintings were on display in churches, convents, and monasteries in Antwerp and other European cities. The exhibition will offer a close look at Flemish art and the history and the history of the Flemish art collection at the St. Petersburg Hermitage.