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Irma Boom: Biography in Books

Major retrospective exhibition of Irma Boom's work

Friday 4 June, 17:00 - Sunday, 3 October 2010, 17:00

A Future for the Past

Celebrating Allard Pierson Museum 75 years. To mark this 75th anniversary, an exhibition is organized bringing together the past, present and future.

Best Dutch Book Designs

50th anniversary exhibition of best-designed books, from the earliest books until the present.

Wednesday 1 July, 10:00 - Sunday, 20 September 2009, 17:00

Jan Six the archaeologist. A special Amsterdam citizen

Homage to the Allard Pierson Museum with an exhibition about Jan Six and his passion for archaeology.

Wednesday 8 April, 10:00 - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 17:00

Romeyn de Hooghe. Illustrating the late Golden Age

Exhibition at the Special Collections and in the Allard Pierson Museum.

Wednesday 10 December, 10:00 - Sunday, 8 March 2009, 17:00

Atlas Maior. The world of Blaeu

Exhibition on the Atlas Maior and its maker, Joan Blaeu

Wednesday 18 June, 10:00 - Sunday, 23 November 2008, 17:00

Book seeks reader

Exhibition as part of the Amsterdam World Book Capital and the National Book Week 2008.

Thursday 6 March, 10:00 - Sunday, 1 June 2008, 17:00

Ape, fish, book. Linnaeus in Amsterdam

Exhibition on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus’s birth.

Friday 5 October, 10:00 - Monday, 25 February 2008, 17:00

Cooks and Kitchenmaids

In the summer of 2006 the University Library Amsterdam (UvA) organizes an exhibition on cookery books.

Friday 16 June - Friday, 15 September 2006

Stories from the Wild Coast

The University Library starts the new year with an exhibition about wonderful Surinam. The stimulus for this exhibition is the new image database ‘Surinam 1599-1975’ which becomes accessible on 25 January 2006. The exhibition Stories from the Wild Coast casts an eye at the early history of colonial Surinam on the basis of pieces from our own collection, such as historical pictures, maps, drawings and prints.

Wednesday 25 January - Friday, 28 April 2006

Herakles! Antiquity's greatest Hero

Meet Heracles, Antiquity's very own Bruiser. Learn all about his enormous muscles and what he achieved with them.

Friday 28 April - Sunday, 18 June 2006

Geraki, example of an archeological dig

A survey of over ten years of excavations in the Geraki settlement in the Greek Peloponnesus. It allows the visitor to get to know the world which precedes the museum, the world of archeological field work.

Friday 28 April - Sunday, 18 June 2006

Colour! In Greek and Etruscan antiquity

Antiquity was much more colourful than what we see of it today! Many colourful objects on loan from collections in the Netherlands and elsewhere will illustrate this fact.

Friday 2 December - Sunday, 26 March 2006

The Art of the Pen

This exhibition, based on the rich collection of the University Library and arranged by calligraphy expert Ton Croiset van Uchelen, gives a survey of four centuries of calligraphy in the Netherlands. In particular the Dutch calligraphers from the 17th century play an important part. The visitor is given a beautiful survey of the finest Dutch collection in this field, with unique and valuable material. The collection is part of the Special Collections of the University Library.

Friday 23 September - Friday, 23 December 2005

Gratefully received

Special attention this summer for three special collections which have been housed in the University Library Amsterdam (UvA) for over a century.

Friday 13 May - Friday, 26 August 2005

Designer and client

Commissions from publisher Querido, architect Wim Quist and entrepreneur Paul Fentener van Vlissingen show the genesis of a number of well-known designs.

Friday 11 February - Friday, 29 April 2005

Malta, Temples & Tombs, 5200-750 B.C.

Sculpture and pottery from thousands of years ago from sacred places and mysterious graves will give an unprecedented overview in the Netherlands of the unique civilizations of the remarkable islands of Malta in prehistoric times.

Friday 29 October - Sunday, 27 February 2005

"Believe but your own eyes / Geloof alleen je eigen ogen"

The university library dedicates an exhibition to Frederik Ruysch. Winter 2004 – 2005 also sees the publication of Ruysch’s biography by Luuc Kooijmans.

Thursday 18 November - Friday, 21 January 2005

Spaarnberg treasure

This exhibition will be on show, for four weeks only, in the exhibition room of the University Library. The ‘Spaarnberg treasure’ is about the unique botanical library of the 19th-century banker, Adriaan van der Hoop.

Monday 11 October - Friday, 5 November 2004

Aye-aye!! : prosimians of Madagascar

From 23 June till 1 October 2004 there is an exposition on lemurs, prosimians of Madagascar, in the exhibition room of the University Library.

Wednesday 30 June - Friday, 1 October 2004

Work in progress [Onder handen werk]

Highlights from the Golden Age in the field of typography can be admired in the Amsterdam University Library at the exhibition ‘Onder handen werk: typografie in de Nederlanden 1473-1673’ [Work in progress: typography in the Netherlands 1473 – 1673].

Tuesday 23 March - Friday, 28 May 2004

Peter van Lindonk 40 years in the business of making books commissioned by businesses

From 20 October 2003 to 23 January 2004 an exhibition is on display in the exhibition hall of the University Library devoted to the recently acquired publisher’s list comprising the productions made by publishing house Van Lindonk Special Projects bv (vLSP) in Breukelen, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Experimental Arabic type designs: breaking away from a rich tradition

In the gallery of Special Collections of the University Library a small exhibition on experimental Arabic type designs is on display, featuring the work of young design students, e.g. by the students of the Visual Communication Program at the American University in Dubai.

Coloritto

The art of colorprinting

Moving body [Bewegend lichaam]

Artists inspired by science

Travel in Printing [Reis in Drukken]

From the collections of members from the Dutch Society of Bibliophiles.

Written, drawn and painted [Geschreven, getekend en geschilderd]

Remarkable manuscripts from the the 9th until the 20th centuries in the Amsterdam University Library.

Preservation of the collection of maps and atlases in the University Library

In the Special Collections gallery an exposition is on display until 17 January 2003, featuring the poster presentation held by Jan Werner – curator of maps and atlases – during a conference in Helsinki in September 2003.

Printed in Amsterdam for immigrants [Gedrukt in Amsterdam voor immigranten]

Within the framework of the congress ‘Migrants, their organizations and settling down (1600-2000)’, which takes place on the occasion of the 370th anniversary of the University of Amsterdam, the University Library mounted the exhibition ‘Gedrukt in Amsterdam voor immigranten’.

Forum as a platform of design [Forum als ontwerppodium]

The design of the architectural magazine Forum as an itinerary through the landscape of Dutch design after 1945.

Encompassing all quarters [Alle streken van het kompas]

Voyages of the Dutch East India Company and other travel reports published by the Linschoten Society.

The attics crack! [De zolders kraken!]

The Cohen publishers family. Nijmegen-Arnhem-Amsterdam, 1824-1951