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  1. Event Onvergetelijk Singer gallery programme for living with dementia

    Specially trained museum guides lead small conversational tours focused on looking closely and sharing memories without any pressure.

    17 September 2026

  2. Event Naturocene opens at Project Space On The Inside

    The gallery opens its winter exhibition across four rooms, looking at human relations with the natural world.

    17 September 2026

  3. Event Guided architectural walk through Landgoed Zonnestraal

    A guide walks you through the 1928 modernist sanatorium complex, explaining its pioneering concrete design over ninety minutes.

    17 September 2026

  4. Event Naturocene opens at Project Space On The Inside

    The contemporary gallery space opens its new autumn exhibition, with standard daytime visiting hours through winter.

    17 September 2026

  5. Event Explore modernist sanatorium architecture at Landgoed Zonnestraal

    A ninety-minute guided walk through the 1928 Nieuwe Bouwen sanatorium complex designed by Jan Duiker.

    17 September 2026

  6. Event Chamber sounds for infants at Het Concertgebouw’s Babyconcert

    Live voice, cello, and piano melodies introduce the youngest listeners to gentle acoustic dynamics on soft floor cushions.

    17 September 2026

  7. Event Babyconcert for infants up to eighteen months

    Voice, cello, and piano chamber pieces arranged specifically for babies and one accompanying adult sitting together.

    17 September 2026

  8. Event Daytime soul and disco at We Want The Funk

    Six hours of seventies classics, nu-disco, and soul food, timed to wrap up early on Sunday evening.

    17 September 2026

  9. Event Daytime soul and disco at We Want The Funk

    DJs spin vintage vinyl funk and modern nu-disco across an afternoon floor with warm soul food nearby.

    17 September 2026

  10. Event Monthly Pink Dance social afternoon at Het Open Huis

    An inclusive social floor running through ballroom, Latin, and line dancing, complete with cash-only bar drinks served by volunteers.

    17 September 2026

  11. Event Pink Dance social afternoon

    Couples and solo dancers switch between ballroom, Latin, and line dancing across an easygoing queer-friendly Sunday floor.

    17 September 2026

  12. Event Invent instruments together in Muziekgebouw’s SoundLAB

    Families tinker with unusual synthesizers, light sensors, and electronic gadgets to build an original group composition from scratch.

    17 September 2026

  13. Event SoundLAB inventive instrument workshop for families

    Kids and grown-ups experiment together with unusual electronic gadgets and acoustic noisemakers to build a quick original piece.

    17 September 2026

  14. Event Abracadabra at Joods Museum

    Historical props, trick mechanics, and hands-on illusions reveal how Jewish stage performers shaped modern stage magic around 1900.

    17 September 2026

  15. Event Abracadabra magic and illusion history at Joods Museum

    Golden Age Jewish illusionists, levitation secrets, and hands-on trick stations developed alongside magician Hans Klok for all ages.

    17 September 2026

  16. Event Abracadabra traces Jewish illusionists from Houdini onward

    Historic props, illusion secrets, and interactive stations trace the craft of turn-of-the-century stage magicians and escape artists.

    17 September 2026

  17. Event Abracadabra explores modern stage magic and Jewish illusionists

    Historic props reveal how classic stage illusions worked, tracing twentieth-century showmen from Harry Houdini to the Bamberg dynasty.

    17 September 2026

  18. Event Fresh kleinkunst material tested live at KIEM

    Up-and-coming writers and established performers bring unpolished theater songs and brand-new stage sketches before a live test audience.

    17 September 2026

  19. Event Fresh kleinkunst and songs tested live at KIEM

    Emerging writers and seasoned performers road-test newly written Dutch theater material before an intimate audience.

    17 September 2026

  20. Event Herman Kruyder and Jo Kruyder-Bouman in focus

    Early Dutch expressionist paintings hang alongside rarely seen contributions by his wife, artist and author Jo Kruyder-Bouman.

    17 September 2026

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