13 Dec 2024 - 4 May 2025
13 Dec 2024 - 4 May 2025
Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel
Art made by children
Every school vacation, children from Amsterdam get the chance to collaborate on a work of art during the Amsterdam Museum Camp, based on a particular theme. In 2024, this theme was identity. What does identity mean to them, and how is it expressed? Can you change your identity? Is identity something you can put on? Or is identity made of wood, or perhaps glass?
The artworks, which the children created under the guidance of artists, range from stained glass to video. The works are now on display at the Amsterdam Museum in the small exhibition of the ELJA Children's Museum Lab.
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What's on display?
Made during the May Holiday
Children from Amsterdam Center created a video artwork about their alter egos under the guidance of Judith Schuur. Oscar Peters worked with children from Weesp on catapults that could fire identities. Little artists from Zuid made scale models of a maze together with Baukje Duin, and in Zuidoost, with the help of George Adegite, identities were expressed in shoes.
Made during the Fall Break
Inner worlds of children were depicted in figurines thanks to Isa van Lier, while children in Noord illuminated their positive and negative sides with stained-glass artist Robin Kapitein. In West, Koos Buster developed decorative signs with the children and in New West, scents were central to the sculpture the children made with Yazan Maksoud.
Create your own art, too?
Come to the Amsterdam Museum this winter! Every Saturday and Sunday, the Amsterdam Museum organizes unique art workshops as part of the ELJA Children's Museum Lab.
Artists such as Baukje Duin, Isa van Lier and Yazan Maksoud will take you through the theme “Identity: celebrating self-expression. Have you ever wanted to make your own jewelry or clay a fantasy tree? Sign up quickly below.
The workshops are suitable for children between the ages of 8 and 12.
About the ELJA Children's Museum Lab
During the period 2023-2025, Amsterdam children (ages 9-12) will have the chance to help think about the city museum of the future. What will it look like? And what does the ultimate museum for and by children look like? By participating in the Amsterdam Museum Camp, collaborating on artworks, putting together exhibitions, and installing a children's panel and children's director, Amsterdam children are helping to build their own children's museum.
They are helping to open the eyes of the public and staff and make the museum the place for children. But above all, making and looking at art provides opportunities for the children to reflect on themselves, their environment and the world.
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The Public Library of Amsterdan (Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam) is programme partner of the ELJA Children's Museum Lab.
The lectoraat Kunsteducatie van de Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten guides and researches the ELJA Children's Museum Lab.