Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar is a great place to share your enjoyment of art, culture and history. As well as the permanent displays, the museum stages temporary exhibitions several times a year with a diverse programme of events and activities. Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar is an ideal venue for families with children and a great place to spend an afternoon. Looking together is much more fun.

Always on show

Alkmaar’s Golden Age
Be overwhelmed by the finest works by Old Masters like Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Maarten van Heemskerck, Pieter Jansz Saenredam and Caesar van Everdingen. The paintings are set off by an exceptional collection of furniture, fine silver and seventeenth-century glassware.

Portrait of Alkmaar
In this captivating portrait of the city through the ages you will discover famous residents of Alkmaar past and present.

The Bergen School
Visit the permanent Bergen School exhibition with artists like Charley Toorop, Leo Gestel, Arnout Colnot, and Piet and Matthieu Wiegman.

Victory!
The interactive historical exhibition about the Siege of Alkmaar will fascinate the whole family. Live the siege from day to day.

Temporary exhibitions

herman de vries: At Your Feet
In at your feet, the artist herman de vries says that everything can be art. This belief underpins his work as an artist. Nature is his workshop. He finds the unusual in objects that already exist, and sometimes literally lie at your feet. herman de vries (expressly written with lowercase initials because he does not believe in hierarchy) is one of the Netherlands’ most prominent artists. His work is shown all over the world, and collected in leading museums of art, including MOMA (New York), the Nationalgalerie (Berlin) and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He represented the Netherlands at the 2015 Venice Biennale. After many travels and wanderings, herman de Vries made his home in Eschenau, Southern Germany. He was born in Alkmaar in 1931 and lived here for the first twenty years of his life. Now he—and his work—return to his birthplace.
From 1 June to 1 September 2019

Pieter van Schaeyenborgh: Master of the Fish Still Life
This summer Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar presents the first exhibition of works by Pieter van Schaeyenborgh (active 1635-57). This seventeenth-century artist, almost unknown until recently, was one of the most skilled Dutch painters of fish still lifes, and the only painter active in Alkmaar who specialized in still lifes.
From 22 June to 27 October 2019 / small gallery

Coming soon

The Toorop Dynasty
In the autumn of 2019 Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar will showcase the life and work of Charley Toorop, who spent a large part of her career working in Bergen. Daughter of a famous and influential artist and mother of a gifted painter, she was the key figure in the Toorop dynasty, largely from her base in Bergen. The Toorop Dynasty will introduce visitors to the artistic similarities in the work of Jan Toorop, Charley Toorop and Edgar Fernhout, and examine the relationships between them.
From 28 September 2019 to 26 January 2020

Visit Alkmaar

Alkmaar is an attractive city of culture with a rich history. It has several museums and splendid monuments including the Grote or Sint Laurenskerk. The many original boutiques in the ‘old town’ make Alkmaar a true shoppers’ paradise. After a day visiting museums and shopping, you can enjoy the friendly cafés and restaurants. And of course you don’t want to miss the famous cheese market between April and September!
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