Amsterdam · Noord
Eye Filmmuseum
A white origami building across the water, holding the national film archive
The basement, where you can pull a film from the collection and watch it alone in a pod
The Dutch film archive moved across the IJ in 2012 into a building that looks like a folded sheet of paper landing on the north bank. Four cinemas, a permanent exhibition on the history of the moving image and a terrace restaurant with the best view of the old city from anywhere in Amsterdam.
The part most visitors miss is downstairs: individual viewing pods where you can call up titles from the archive and watch them by yourself, included in the exhibition ticket.
The detail
Good to know
- Opened
- On this site in 2012
- Archive
- National film collection, 55 000 titles
- Cinemas
- Four
- Getting there
- Free ferry from behind Centraal Station
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