EYE Film Institute Netherlands

The Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam is the national film museum in the Netherlands.

History

The museum was founded in 1946 as Nederlands Historically Filmarchief, and was founded in 1952 under its current name. Since 1972, the Film Museum in a pavilion in the Amsterdam Vondelpark. The Vondelparkpaviljoen was built from 1874 to 1881 after plans by Willem Hamer Jr. in the Neo-Renaissance style. He is on the lowest point of Amsterdam.

The Film Museum has about 46,000 movies ( of which 7 million meters of celluloid film from the first half of the 20th century ), more than 35,000 movie posters and 450,000 photographs. Even Act aim of the museum is to preserve the film- historical heritage as well as the preservation of a vibrant film culture in the Netherlands. Therefore, it is in the inventory, especially to Dutch productions, but also foreign films that have run in Dutch cinemas. The museum has two Filmvorführsäle and is frequented annually by more than 150,000 visitors. It also performs restorations. Attached to the institution is the Netherlands' largest library for film literature. In the basement of the museum, a café - restaurant is located. In 1991 the building was extensively renovated.

On 5 April 2012, however, the Amsterdam Film Museum is called to a new building on the Overhoeks, formerly the Dutch Shell oil company owned premises on the north bank of the IJ, at the foot of the shell Towers, moved. As a winner of the international design competition advertised in 2005 showed the design of the Austrian architecture firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. After the move, the museum bears the name EYE. Film Instituut Nederland.