The New York Times reports that The Drift Museum will open later this year in Oostenburg, once a major Dutch East India Company shipyard.
It belongs to Lonneke Gordijn, 46, and Ralph Nauta, 48, who founded Studio Drift in 2007 and have long wanted one space to show their works together.
A home in the Van Gendt Hallen
Bugaboo co-founder Eduard Zanen, who is redeveloping the late 19th-century Van Gendt Hallen, agreed to include the museum.
It fills two of the complex’s five factory halls, linked by a corridor, and will show signature works such as Shylight and Franchise Freedom, in which thousands of lit drones mimic a flock of starlings.
A giant ball and a living sculpture
The first gallery holds World Transformers, a 10-foot version of Chuck Hoberman’s colour-changing Switch Pitch toy, built with his help.
One side has about a thousand lights moving like birds and the other has 1,500 screens of conflicting information, and Gordijn says visitors should feel how suddenly the two can switch.
Visitors can also wear bio-trackers whose readings light up a module that is added to an ever-changing sculpture.
Check out our guide to Amsterdam’s newer museums.
