Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 22-7-2006)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Like a lot of museums the real Stedelijk Museum is currently being renovated so they moved to another location near the central station of Amsterdam. I had not been to the new temporary location yet even though the SM (yes that is their official abbreviation; it used to be on the tags you got in the wardrobe, the towels etc.) is one of my favorite museums. But then again I moved to Belgium some time after they moved and I haven't been in Amsterdam a lot recently.

This temporary location is in an old post office building which actually looks more like some kind of apartment building. It's pretty hot inside too by the way.
But it's another free visit (www.amuseevous.be) so it doesn't matter if we wont stay long ;-)

My favorite way of visiting modern art, and especially the SM, is to let myself be flooded by visual information. So not much reading just walking around and looking and not too slow either. It makes you feel the art rather than understand it.
And it was a nice visual flooding ;-)

The site of the SM here (also available in English!)
There are only temporary exhibits on this location. Some include parts of their collection. The real museum opens again in the autumn of 2008.