We offer different activities in and around the museum and at school. Read below for the different options. A number of activities can be booked directly, for other activities you can contact us.
Discover the STRAAT collection with one of our experienced guides and get to know everything about our museum, the different themes and styles, and more. An interactive guided tour in which students will be challenged to actively reflect on street art, combined with stimulating questions about multiple works in our collection.
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 15,- per student
Number of students: up to 45 students at once
Combine the guided tour in our museum with a guided tour of the NDSM wharf. This special part of Amsterdam has a unique history, which includes a big street art chapter. In graffiti terms, the NDSM wharf is what we call a hall of fame, a place where street artists can paint ‘freely’. This indoor and outdoor guided tour is ideal for the warmer months of the year.
Duration: 90 minutes
Price: € 20,- per student
Number of students: up to 45 students at once
Our workshop graffiti allows students to discover what it’s like to create art with spray cans. Our experienced workshop teacher will always take the students to the museum first to check out cool examples. That way, the students are guaranteed to find the necessary inspiration to create their very own masterpiece. The end of the workshop is a great moment to take a nice group picture as a souvenir of this special day.
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 30,- per student
Number of students: up to 45 students at once
Location: STRAAT*
Our workshop stencil art allows students to discover what it’s like to create art with templates (stencils). The workshop starts with 30 minutes in our museum to check out some cool examples. Inspired by the works in our collection, the students will then create their own stencil art. Afterwards, the students get to take home their artwork.
Duration: 150 minutes
Price: € 40,- per student
Number of students: up to 30 students at once
Location: STRAAT
In our typography workshop, students will build, design and develop their own letters, based on particular subgenres in graffiti. Consequence and balance in their font will be a big part of the day. The assignments will be done on paper. This workshop is ideal to organize in the art classroom at your school. Perfectly suited to art or graphic design students.
Duration: 90 minutes
Price: € 225,-
Number of students: up to 25 students at once
Location: At school
The history and development of street art as a modern-day phenomenon. Students will learn more about the origins of graffiti, the first interactions with the established art world, artists such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the role of Dutch museums in the acceptance of street art as a museal art form. Ultimately, they will have a better understanding of the current popularity of street art as a modern art form and global movement.
Duration: 90 minutes
Price: € 125,-
Number of students: up to 25 students at once
Location: At school
This guest lecture revolves around the question ‘what makes art art?’. Students will learn more about the so-called gatekeepers in the cultural field and the advocates of graffiti as a museal artform through the history and ‘artification’ of graffiti and street art. This way, the history of graffiti and street art is combined with a deeper pondering of the question ‘when is something considered art?’.
Duration: 90 minutes
Price: € 125,-
Number of students: up to 25 students at once
Location: At school
In this guest lecture we’ll take a closer look at the predecessors of STRAAT. Why were Dutch museums Boijmans van Beuningen and Groninger Museum the first acclaimed international museums to exhibit graffiti as art in 1983/1984? Where do renowned Dutch museum directors Wim Beeren and Frans Haks place graffiti in the bigger story of art history?
Duration: 90 minutes
Price: € 125,-
Number of students: up to 25 students at once
Location: At school
Workshops and tours can be booked directly through our website. Click here.
For more information, discussing a tailor-made program, or booking other activities, please contact educatie@straatmuseum.com or use the contact form below. A STRAAT visit can be paid with your CJP budget.
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