opening & program 2026
XR Theatermuseum at the PARADE Amsterdam
PREMIERE WITH OUR PARADE DESIGN TEAM
Amsterdam 24 July - 9 August 2026
De Virtuele heropening van het Theatermuseum kan een succes worden genoemd.
Het Immersive Narratief, gemaakt door ons Gen Z team en Rooftop Immersive Studio werd zeer positief ontvangen.
1.130 bezoekers waarvan 482 kinderen kregen een privé rondleiding door de 'Internationale Theatertentoonstelling' zoals deze te zien was in het Stedelijk Museum van Amsterdam in 1922.
Our 'on location' Gen Z Team ready for the next exhibition.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND LOCATIONS
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The exhibition starts with the most important designers of the 1922 Avant Garde, Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig.
In the DNA catalogue you may find the other 93 participants of the 1922 exhibition
VR Exhibition room #1
Adolphe Appia
Appia is best known for his many scenic designs for Wagner’s operas. He rejected painted two-dimensional sets for three-dimensional "living" sets because he believed that shade was as necessary as light to form a connection between the actor and the setting of the performance in time and space. Through the use of control of light intensity, colour and manipulation, Appia created a new perspective of scene design and stage lighting.
VR Exhibition room #2
Edward Gordon Craig
Craig asserted that the director was "the true artist of the theatre" and, controversially, suggested viewing actors as no more important than marionettes. He designed and built elaborately symbolic sets; for instance, a set composed of his patented movable screens for the Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet. He was also the editor and chief writer for the first international theatre magazine, The Mask.
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE EXHIBITION
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Een eeuw verder
CONNECTIE TUSSEN DE TWEE TENTOONSTELLINGEN:
1922 and the APOCALYPSE
Exhibition room #3
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Several works by Felix the Rooy
Assemblages as shown at the APOCALYPSE exhibition in the Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, 2023:
'El Negro Felipe' (1987), 'La Esclava Anastasia' (1987) and 'Primal Mother' (1992) respectively.
More on Felix de Rooy's oeuvre
Rien Bekkers
The artwork is inspired on the human body and its methamorphoses into an endless possible appearances thanks to the costumes, in theater and real life as well.
Without a moving actor or singer, a costume gains the characteristics of a monumental sculpture, it becomes an object.
"From a fantasy, an interest in the material and love for the craftsmanship, a shape, an atmosphere and a silhouette – which I hope raise wonder and intrigue – gradually come into being through modeling and experimenting."
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Giant Hummingtop (1972)
One of the six instruments designed by Floris Guntenaar for the composition 'To You' by Peter Schat and Adrian Mitchell, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
The Toneclock (Collection Royal Conservatory, The Hague)
The glass windows made by the composer himself are presently owned by the Royal Conservatory in The Hague
What Schat discovered in 1982 is that there are exactly 12 possible triads in the chromatic universe, if one accepts any combination of two intervals as a triad.
Schat materialized his theory by installing a set of twelve leaded glass roof windows in his canal house in Amsterdam. The original set can now be seen in the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where Schat both studied and taught. But in the attractive spiral form in which the windows are hung there, they lost their function of being ‘a gateway to heaven’. Schat’s fascination for cloudscapes, celestial bodies and heaven itself was well-known; think of De Hemel (‘Heaven’), one of his tone-clock compositions.
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OUR YOUNGEST VISITORS
Bezoekers van de Kinderparade
TheaterMuseum voor alle leeftijden
Partners & co-producers
Concept reconstruction
Peter Eversmann, Theater Science UvA
Rob van der Zalm, Theater Science UvA
Content & Reconstruction
Ruben de Waal, Theater Science UvA, research by students
3D reconstruction: Jedan Tutuhatunela
4D Research lab, UvA, zie 4DRLab Tijm Lanjouw, Jitte Waagen
Database, Collection Management
ArchiveTech, DynamischArchief.nl, Studio CrossmarX
Laura van Bussel, Floris Guntenaar, Thaimon Vlaar
Conversion reconstruction VR Museum & 3D scans
Rooftop Immersive Studio
Jan Maarten Groen,Tom Vos, Glenn Wustlich, Sil Rijsenbrij, Casper Arends, Fadi Lemqaddem
Allard Pierson, Universiteit van Amsterdam
1922 Poster from the Theatercollectie, D1922-01*
Production PARADE première 2026
Rooftop Immersive Studio
DynamischArchief.nl
*) Some collection items at the Parade venue are not Virtual but real.
Copy of the 1922 Exhibition Poster, painting from the Houdini Opera, "the Song of Liberation' (1977), The entrance 'Kassa' from the Flint Brothers (1991) respectively.
