LEARN AND EXPERIENCE
THE CURIOUS MUSEUM
Who says you have to keep quiet in the museum? The roles existing between the museum and its visitors seem to have been set in stone; the museum teaches and the visitor absorbs. The Van Abbemuseum takes a critical look at these fixed roles and experiments with new ways in which the visitor engages and participates. Contemporary art often aims for a dialogue, asks questions and invites debate. Visiting the museum the visitors are offered multiple ways for entering into conversation with the museum. One of these ways is inviting visitors to share there own interpretation of an artwork.
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Over 130,000 titles
The Van Abbemuseum’s library is recognized as one of the best specialist libraries in the Netherlands. Accessible free of charge, the library concentrates on scholarly literature in the field of modern and contemporary visual art. You are welcome to read the periodicals here, to study books or simply to scan for ideas.
THE MUSEUM AS A MEETING PLACE
The visitor's personal interests and associations are the starting point for the informal talks with our hosts and cicerone. These meetings often offert unexpected and revealing points of view. In these way works of art can be looked at in different ways.
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Free guided tours
Free guided tours take place every Sunday at 12:00. These tours are meant for individual persons, not groups. Please note that only the guided tours are free, not the entrance fee!
Give your own interpretation!
- Photo: Susan van Uden
The Van Abbemuseum offers tailor-made lessons for pupils at secondary level. The lessons may relate to temporary exhibitions or specific parts of the collection, and may also be thoroughly adapted to the interests and current themes of your own school’s teaching. The aim is to go further than the regular guided tours which concentrate mainly on imparting information. The challenge to the pupils is not just ‘what do you know about art?’ but also ‘what do you think about it?’
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THE STUDIO
The major expansion in visitor activities and a growing network in Eindhoven, that has managed to set up projects for neighbourhoods, schools and youth groups. The Studio is an new project area that hosts these special activities and our (new) workshops.
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Combinary
Play Combinary and get to know our collection in your own way! We already collected over 100 stories. You can read these stories by telling yours.
Combinary gives you the chance tell your own story.
Can you tell an original story? Combine three pieces of art from our collection and find out!
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Let us introduce ourselves...
At the Van Abbemuseum we like a good conversation. An interesting exchange generally begins with a simple question or comment, which opens the way to further exploration of the topic. So do not hesitate to approach one of our staff for a chat about art; we would love to talk to you.