Amsterdam

The passage through the building links a city street with the wartime evacuation of the museum’s principal painting.

This stop traces how one family’s decision preserved the core of the collection for a separate museum.

Here, the dangerous pause between the announced liberation and actual control of the city will become clear.

This stop will show how private property helped a Catholic community stay together.

A church record will bring the famous artist back from museum renown to the ordinary order of city burials.

Here it will become clear what risk a city museum took by giving its galleries to artists who had not yet been recognized.

This stop shows how the owners and a conductor turned a social evening with service into disciplined listening.

The story of a hiding place on an island will complete the route at the spot where soldiers chose not to cross the water.

It will show how the railway took over the edge of the harbor and changed the main entrance to the old city.

The market gives the story a human scale: a childhood performance became an opportunity that would pay off many years later.

It will show how the ban on the organ during services turned church music into an open public performance in the city.

This is where the theme of public display begins: from a temporary colonial rotunda to a modern urban square.

A long experiment will show how scientific fame can outlive a refuted conclusion through a single word.

The fate of the Hanukkah lamp will bring the history of the looted complex down to one surviving object and one loss.

A wartime inspection will show how ordinary features of the building changed the occupiers’ decision.

Links the former city gates, goods scales, and a public lesson whose commissioned image changed the career of a young artist.