Past activities and events

The complete overview of past activities can be found on the Dutch page

25 november 2025
Arne Hendriks in het atelier
25 november 2025
Arne Hendriks in het atelier
Museumnacht
1 november 2025

Christ Cruciform in: Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrvm sapientiae aeternae. Manuscript from 1702. (State-owned part of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Allard Pierson)

Book launch, 18 oktober 2025
Book launch: The Mage's Images
Viewing session, 18 oktober 2025
Viewing Session: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Exhibition, 11 April - 7 September 2025
Amsterdam Eats. A History in Dishes
Course, 4-5 September 2025
Summerschool: Identifying and understanding different types of bindings
Course, 1-3 September 2025
Summerschool: Expert Approaches to Book Archaeology: from paper to provenances
Course, 27-29 August 2025
Summer School: Fundamentals of the book before 1800
Workshop, 25 August 2025
Münsterites, Merchants, and Ministers
Theme Day, 24 June 2025
Resistance through Word, Dance, and Sound
Workshop: Aan Tafel met Malou Sumah
Workshop, 7 juni
Symposium, 5-6 June 2025
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food
Workshop, May 12
Decolonizing the Allard Pierson: Curating racism and slavery
Lecture, 8 May
Fellow lezing: Touching voices
5 May
Freedom Meal
Lecture, 3 april
Fellow lecture: Provenance research on illicit trade
Lecture, 28 March
Jansonius Lecture: Circling the square
Exhibition, 15 November 2024 - 2 March 2025
The audience portrayed – Martin Monnickendam
Exhibition, 19 September 2024 - 26 January 2025
"As messengers" A film by Matthew C. Wilson and Amelia Tapprest
Exhibition, 30 August 2024 - 26 January 2025
The call of the O’o. Nature under pressure
Theme day, 25 January 2025
Art in the climate crisis
Exhibition, 6 October 2023 - 20 May 2024
Johannes N. Helstone: Suriname in motion
Symposium, 11 October 2024
Autumn Meeting: Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Workshop, 2-6 September 2024
Introduction to the Archaeology of the Book
Workshop, 28-30 August 2024
Course: Fundamentals of the Book
Exhibition, 6 October - 20 May 2024
Face to face. The people behind mummy portraits
Film, 22 October 2023
Imagine Film Festival: The Magic of Alchemy
Workshop, 29 August 2023
An introduction to the archaeology of rare books
Exhibition, 3 March - 20 August 2023
Maps unfolded
Conference, 1 June 2023
Type Amsterdam 2023
Conference, 19-21 October 2022
Mummy Portrait Conference
Exhibition, 1 February 1 - 25 September 2022
Irma Boom - Book Manifest
Symposium, 10 September 2022
Symposium ‘Book Manifest’
Exhibition, 26 February - 15 May 2022
Here I Am: Afterlife of Senkamanisken’s Shabti
Exhibition, 11 December 2021 - 6 March 2022
Animal mummies investigated
Online, 12 February 2022
Foodie Festival
Symposium, 27 January 2022
Symposium Bissing Links
Exhibition, 1 October 2020 - 24 October 2021
Goddesses of art nouveau
Lecrure, 10 September 2021
Frederik Muller Lecture: Where is the colour in book history? (Online)
Exhibition, 22 October 2020 - 29 August 2021
Letters of art nouveau
Online, 29 July 2021
Summerschool: Early Alchemical Image Sequences and the Golden Age of Emblematic Alchemy

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