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Event Abracadabra: Jewish illusionists from Houdini to Klok
Interactive history exploring classic stage escapes, six generations of illusionists, and tricks visitors can test themselves.

11 September 2026
Event Persian classical music with Kayhan Kalhor Ensemble
Master kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor shares the Kleine Zaal stage with vocalist Hadi Hosseini and tombak player Niloufar Mohseni.

11 September 2026
Event StuiterStokken strings concert for four-year-olds
An hour of classical string music shaped specifically for four and five year olds in small morning sessions.

11 September 2026
Event Boekstart Babybieb at Westwijk Library
Parents sit with babies and toddlers under two to share picture books, with dedicated feeding and changing areas provided.

11 September 2026
Event Tour Amsterdam’s municipal timber yard and build a birdhouse
See where the city's fallen trees end up, then assemble your own wooden birdhouse to keep.

11 September 2026
Event Zing-Cirkel Concertgebouw: gentle group singing for seniors and carers
Former opera singer Maartje de Lint leads an accessible singing circle tailored specifically for people with dementia or Parkinson's.

11 September 2026
Event Lita Cabellut meets Goya’s etchings at Museum JAN
Twenty-two monumental paintings, sculptures, and installations face Francisco de Goya's prints from Los Disparates across the gallery.

11 September 2026
Event Naturocene contemporary exhibition at Project Space On The Inside
The gallery reopens after installation with a new contemporary art show running right through early next year.

11 September 2026
Event Behind the illusions at Abracadabra: Secrets from Houdini to Hans Klok
Props and interactive stages unpack escape stunts, floating illusions, and generations of Jewish stage performers.

11 September 2026
Event Outdoor art projections onto the Watertoren
Stand on the square after dusk as twenty visual artists project large-scale works directly onto the brick water tower.

11 September 2026
Event Drop into the weekly QueerHub community living room
A quiet afternoon space with music and books, plus free private sessions with a social worker.

11 September 2026
Event Live music and books at Boekstart Babybieb mét muziek
A musician accompanies reading rounds for babies up to age two, with older siblings welcomed along.

10 September 2026
Event Cut and rivet your own custom leather bag by hand
A practical studio session for ten people, working through leather cutting, hole punching, and manual assembly without machines.

10 September 2026
Event Drop-in drawing and storybooks at Familiewoensdag
Children can sprawl across beanbags to read or sketch ships and sea monsters in the museum's central courtyard.

10 September 2026
Event Live recording of De publieke tribune at Tolhuistuin
Audience members sit in for an unedited public recording of the long-running weekly radio discussion programme.

9 September 2026
Event Monumental iron and bronze sculptures in museum gardens
Thirteen welded steel and cast bronze pieces, some eight metres tall, sit outdoors across the formal lawn.

9 September 2026
Event Vertel verder… interactive testimony at the Holocaust Museum
Twelve recorded survivors answer questions spoken into a microphone, drawn from a database of roughly a thousand filmed replies.

9 September 2026