EYE Film Instituut Nederland
The EYE Film Instituut Nederland (formerly Nederlands Filmmuseum ) in Amsterdam is the national film museum of the Netherlands .
history
The museum was founded in 1946 as Nederlands Historisch Filmarchief , and has existed under its current name since 1952. The film museum has been located in a pavilion in Amsterdam's Vondelpark since 1972 . The Vondelparkpaviljoen was built between 1874 and 1881 according to plans by Willem Hamer jr. built in the neo-renaissance style. It stands at the lowest point in Amsterdam.
The film museum has around 46,000 films (including 7 million meters of celluloid film from the first half of the 20th century), more than 35,000 film posters and around 450,000 photographs. The museum's self-set goal is to preserve the film-historical heritage and also to maintain a lively film culture in the Netherlands. This is why the holdings are mainly Dutch productions, but also foreign films that have been shown in Dutch cinemas. The museum has two screening rooms and is frequented by more than 150,000 visitors each year. It also carries out restorations. Attached to the institution is the largest Dutch library for film literature. A café-restaurant is located in the basement of the museum. In 1991 the building was extensively renovated.
On April 5, 2012, however, the Amsterdam Film Museum moved to a new building on the site called Overhoeks , which formerly belonged to the Dutch oil company Shell on the north bank of the IJ , at the foot of the Shell Tower. In 2005, the winner of the international design competition was the design by the Austrian architecture firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects . After the move, the museum will be called EYE. Film Instituut Nederland .
See also
Web links
- Homepage EYE Film Instituut Nederland (English version)
- EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam . In: amsterdam.info
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 39.8 " N , 4 ° 52 ′ 30.3" E