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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