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Library Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Stedelijk Museum library owns one of the largest collections of publications on the areas of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, time based art, installations and art theory. You can enter the library free of charge.
Do you want to consult the books in the library? This is how you can make an appointment:
Please access the catalogue before booking a visit
Let us know which materials you want to consult and book your appointment by sending an email to: bibliotheek@stedelijk.nl
Location
The library of the Stedelijk is located on level -1, below the entrance hall. You can find the stairs to the library on the right of the entrance hall.
Opening hours
By appointment: Tuesday - Thursday from 11 am - 4 pm
https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/visit/library
They Look Of Reading,
We Look From Lacking
Pensive yet unaware, they are not here, but elsewhere; or so it seems. Disrupted but unoffended, they pause from absorption. — by Colby Vexler & Justin Clement
Experimental archives,
new fashion histories
The concept of the ‘archive’ seems to have captured once more the contemporary moment in fashion. — by Laura Gardner
From top to bottom
A header on a page is worn like a hat on the head. It is there as a part of a uniform that can indicate the wearers job, the books title and the stage of development in the narrative. — by Emma Singleton
Her hand nuzzled
into his pocket
How the novel frees the garment of/from? fashion — by Femke de Vries
Keeping your heart in
a fabric padded pouch
Why do we wear our hearts on our sleeves? Why do we pad out our love as though its bound to hurt? Why does a heartbeat reverberate through the fabric of the skin? — by Emma Singleton