👁️‍🗨️ for an 👁️ - Visit the Eye Museum!

Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands.

The building features two gallery exhibition spaces, one 300-seat cinema, two 127-seat cinemas, and a fourth intimate cinema of about 67 seats.One of the gallery spaces is devoted to a permanent exhibition on the technical and aesthetic histories of cinema. The exhibit includes historical equipment drawn from the Museum's collection of approximately 1,500 cinematic apparatuses, as well as an immersive presentation of about one hundred film clips from the Museum's archive, including Dutch and international films dating from the silent era and beyond.The second gallery space is dedicated to experimental cinema or expanded cinema.

The collection is made up of analog, digitized, and born-digital materials which are situated beside a sound restoration and digitization studio, a digital image restoration studio, and a grading and scanning suite.[12] The collection includes 210,000 cans of acetate film, 57,000 film titles, 2.5 petabytes of digital data, 82,000 posters, 700,000 photographs, 27,000 books, 2,000 journals, 1,500 pre-cinema and film apparatuses, 4,500 magic lantern slides, 7,000 musical scores, and 250,000 press cuttings.

Special Exhibition: After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.

We will meet at the front of the Museum entrance at 2 pm (1400) and enter the museum together. For those who would like to join me for a drink, we will meet at 3:15pm (1515) at the museum information desk and take a short walk over to Butcher Social Club, Overhoeksplein 1, for refreshments and socializing, a pleasant way to end our Meetup. I am looking forward to meeting you! I welcome you to join me for a drink afterwards.

The Museumkaart is accepted.

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🚉Amsterdam Centraal ➡️ ⛴️ F3 Buiksloterwegveer ⌚ 3min ➡️🚶⌚4min.