| STRAAT Museum | |||||||
| Established: | October 9, 2020 | ||||||
| Location: | NDSM-plein 1, 1033 WC Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||
| Type: | Street art | ||||||
| Curator: | David Roos | ||||||
| Publictransit: | Bus: 35, 36, 391, 394 | ||||||
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The STRAAT Museum is an art museum of street art and graffiti located in the NDSM neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Opened on October 9th, 2020,[1] its 86,000 sq ft space contains a permanent exhibition with more than 180 works from over 170 artists,[2] as well as a mezzanine gallery that houses temporary exhibitions by up-and-coming artists.[3] The façade and exterior walls also features several murals, with the most prominent being a 2016 depiction of Anne Frank by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra.[4]
In 2023 the museum had an estimated 200,000 visitors.[5]
The space housing the museum is a former welding warehouse later repurposed to contain part of the IJ-hallen, the largest flea market in Europe.[6]
Owner Peter Hoogerwerf reached out to curator David Roos[7] (who would later become Head Curator of the museum)[8] to help decorate the marketplace, bringing inside some of the street art adorning the NDSM. The collection grew rapidly, and at the end of 2015 the two decided to turn the whole space into a museum. After a few slowdowns, like a leaking roof deemed unsafe and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum opened on October 9th, 2020.
The museum houses more than 180 works from over 170 artists, most of which are new artworks that were created onsite.
The collection includes work from notable street artists such as:[9]