National Museum of Photography

The Nederlands Fotomuseum collects and preserves the heritage of Dutch photography. With exhibitions, the museum makes images accessible to a wide audience.

Dutch Photo Museum

The Nederlands Fotomuseum has managed a large part of the photographic heritage in the Netherlands since the late 1980s. The museum also organizes international exhibitions on photography, which are accessible to a large audience. Sometimes a social or artistic theme is central, other times an internationally influential photographer.

The museum is moving!

The Nederlands Fotomuseum is still located in the industrial building Las Palmas, once the workshop building of the Holland-America Line, which was completely renovated in 2006. In the autumn of 2025, the museum will move into its new location: warehouse Santos. In this national monument with eight floors on the Rijnhaven, visitors will soon be able to see the exhibitions. In addition, the building offers space for the museum collection of more than 6.5 million photographic objects.

Hall of Fame of Dutch Photography

The Hall of Fame of Dutch Photography is an ongoing exhibition that shows the development of photography in the Netherlands from 1842 to the present with 99 images. The exhibition is currently closed and will open in a new form at the new location of the museum.

Accessibility

The Dutch Photo Museum in Las Palmas is easily accessible by tram, metro (Wilhelminaplein stop) and water taxi. In the immediate vicinity there is paid parking for more than 500 cars.