De Appel Amsterdam (The Apple)

Foundation for contemporary art

When in April of 2006 Ann Demeester was selected as the new director of De Appel Foundation in Amsterdam, she compared her post to guiding a spaceship. Before De Appel, Demeester worked already with the pope of the contemporary art critics Jan Hoet, at SMAK in Belgium and later at the fabulous MARTa museum in Harford, Germany. Under the new guidance, De Appel aims at a large public but does not make any compromise. Its exhibitions are carefully selected, valuable, essential.

De Appel has also a small, selective modern art public library (call first for appointment), focused on what De Appel did since its creation in 1975.

The feel: Exciting, new, modern. But not for the consumers. You have to bring yourself to participate. For people who do not like or simply - do not want to see what modern art is today, we issue a warning – they will not be happy at De Appel.

Open: Tuesday until Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Closed on January 1, April 30 and in short periods of the exhibition changes.

Admission: € 4,-; Museum boat € 2,-; young people until 18 years – free. Free admission for the holders of the Amsterdam Pass, Dutch Museum card and the press card.

Free admission on the first Sunday of each month.

Handicapped visitors:
There is a wheel chair access to the whole foundation building.

Address:
De Appel Arts Centre
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10
1017 DE Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 625 56 51
Fax: + 31 20 622 52 15
E-mail: info@deappel.nl

How to get there: walking from De Muntplein or Leidseplein (10 minutes)
By tram from the Central Station, lines 1, 2, 5, stop at Koningsplein.
By car – if you persist in driving, you will have to try to find a metered parking place in one on the canal streets (Sunday being the best day to try).

Website: www.deappel.nl