| Museum Tot Zover | |
| Map Type: | Netherlands Amsterdam Greater |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| Coordinates: | 52.3461°N 4.9386°W |
| Established: | [1] |
| Location: | Kruislaan 124[2] Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Director: | Guus Sluiter[3] |
The Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover (Dutch Funeral Museum So Far) is a museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands that displays the various funerary practices of the various cultures present in the Netherlands, with the view that these funerary practices provide a better understanding of these cultures.[4]
The museum is located in De Nieuwe Ooster, a memorial park in Amsterdam that includes a cemetery and crematorium.[5] The original building was designed as a caretaker’s residence by (1858–1923), who was a Dutch city architect best known for designing the Stedelijk Museum.[6]
The collection includes items involved in funerary practices such as funerary masks, caskets and urns, as well as paintings and movie clips that demonstrate these funerary practices.[4] The museum explores death and funerary practices along four themes: rituals, the body, mourning and remembrance, and memento mori.[7]
In addition to its collection, the Museum Tot Zover hosts temporary exhibitions of art and history.[4] One of the museum’s exhibitions is “The Last Image,” which is a digital, online exhibition to which anyone can submit content.[8] The premise of this ongoing exhibition is to explore the implications of photography and digital space in the process of death and dying.[9]