Eye Filmmuseum
The Dutch national film museum in a sharply angled white building on the north bank of the IJ.
Eye Filmmuseum is the Netherlands' national institute for film, combining a museum, four cinemas and one of the larger film archives in Europe. Its roots lie in the Nederlands Filmmuseum, founded in 1946 and long based in the Vondelpark pavilion, which merged with three other film bodies in 2010 to form Eye. The permanent display, What is Film?, uses collection items and interactive installations to trace the medium from early optical toys to contemporary moving image.
The building opened in 2012 on the Overhoeks site in Amsterdam-Noord, a former Shell research campus facing the city across the river IJ. The Viennese practice Delugan Meissl Associated Architects gave it a faceted white shell whose angled planes shift appearance with the light, and a stepped terrace that runs down to the water. Inside, a glazed foyer and bar look back towards Central Station, and the cinemas and exhibition gallery are set into the lower levels.
Highlights
- Permanent display What is Film?, with interactive installations
- Four cinemas screening restored and contemporary film
- Faceted white building by Delugan Meissl, opened in 2012
- Panoramic terrace and foyer facing the IJ and Central Station
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