Sep 28, 2025 · On the lower level and throughout Eye we illuminate various aspects of the world of the moving image. Learn about how film developed, from its early beginnings to the present …

Eye Filmmuseum is hét museum voor film en de kunst van bewegend beeld. Bezoek een film of tentoonstelling en ontdek onze collectie met meer dan 60.000 films.

Eye is responsible for the Netherlands’ film collection: storing this in a sustainable way, making it accessible, providing context, and keeping it alive. We are aware of the gaps in our collection …

Eye Filmmuseum is located on IJpromenade, a cycling and pedestrian path where mopeds and scooters are not allowed. Please remember to park them before the bridge across the canal.

Eye hosts the first Dutch exhibition on Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, showcasing his award-winning films and rarely seen landscape photographs together for the first time.

On the lower level and throughout Eye we illuminate various aspects of the world of the moving image. Learn about how film has developed, from its early beginnings to the present day.

Eye presents a complete overview of Dick Maas’ work. With films such as De lift, Amsterdamned, Flodder and Sint, the filmmaker lured millions of Dutch people to the cinema.

Eye Filmmuseum is now much more than a museum concerned only with film history. Director Sandra den Hamer describes it as ‘a museum for film and the art of the moving image’.

The Eye collection dates back to 1946, when the first predecessor of Eye was founded: the Nederlands Historisch Filmarchief. In 1952, this became the Dutch Filmmuseum, and since …

In addition to the Eye Film Player, where you can rent or see films from the Eye collection for free, you can also visit YouTube for treasures from the collection.