Public guided tour in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum
Oct 10 -
Nov 21
Amsterdam Museum × ITA
Celebrate the Amsterdam Museum’s 100th anniversary at the Stadsschouwburg and explore the Amsterdam Collection! This collection tells the story of generations of theatre makers.
From 1800 well into the twentieth century
- Date
- October 10, 2026 - November 21, 2026
- Duration
- 60 min, no interval
- Genre
- Perspective
- Taal
- Dutch
- Location
- Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Kassa-Infohal
Through the celebrated actress Johanna Ziesenis-Wattier and her contemporaries, we encounter the era of Classicism. With the golden generation of Louis Bouwmeester, Theo Bouwmeester and Esther de Boer-van Rijk, and later Mary Dresselhuys, Han Bentz van den Berg and Ellen Vogel, a tradition emerged of renowned actors who called the Stadsschouwburg their artistic home.
How did visual artists portray these theatre makers? Painters such as J.W. Pieneman, Thérèse Schwartze, Lizzy Ansingh and Nicolaas Wijnberg each immortalised them in their own distinctive way, helping to shape a gallery of honour within the Stadsschouwburg. ITA continues this tradition today by adding new portraits to the collection every year.
Marysa Otte, Senior Collection Advisor at the Amsterdam Museum, and Diederik Imfeld, Coordinator of Collection & Heritage at ITA, will guide you through the history of the Stadsschouwburg and this remarkable collection.
The Amsterdam Museum
The Stadsschouwburg is home to the largest permanently accessible theatre collection in the Netherlands, featuring portraits of theatre makers from the past three centuries across more than two hundred paintings, photographs, sculptures, and murals.
A large part of this collection is owned by the City of Amsterdam and is on long-term loan to the Stadsschouwburg through the Amsterdam Museum.
