Date in the Amsterdam Museum

With the help of 10 questions, you and your favourite person will walk through the Panorama Amsterdam exhibition. Find the right question for the artworks and ask each other questions you might not otherwise ask. Learn something about Amsterdam and about each other.

    Bovenkant van een piëta, ca. 1450, maker onbekend

    Question 1

    This sculpture was damaged around 1578 by angry Protestants who opposed Catholic worship of images of saints. How would you feel if your partner believed something different from you?  

    Image: Maker unknown, Top of a pietà, ca. 1450

    Regentessen van het Burgerweeshuis

    Question 2

    The women in this painting were responsible for taking care of orphans in the seventeenth century. What do you do for the city?

    Image: Adriaen Backer (ca. 1636-1684) Regentesses of the Civil Orphanage, 1683

    Allegorische voorstelling van de stad Amsterdam als centrum van de wereldhandel, ca. 1606, Pieter Isaacsz (1568-1626)

    Question 3

    This object is the only thing left of Amsterdam’s city harpsichord. Which instrument would you like to play?

    Image: Pieter Isaacsz (1568-1626), Allegorical depiction of the city of Amsterdam as the center of world trade, ca. 1606

    Artus Quellinus (1609-1668) Vier stadswijnkannen, 1652

    Question 4

    The contents of these wine jugs (10 liters!) were given by mayors to important visitors to the city. If you were a (non-alcoholic) beverage, what would you be?

    Image: Artus Quellinus (1609-1668), Four city wine jugs, 1652

    Jan Weenix (1642-1719), Portret van Agnes Block (1629-1704), Sybrand de Flines (1623-1697) en twee kinderen op de buitenplaats Vijverhof, ca. 1694

    Question 5

    Agnes and Sybrand each had their own hobbies. Sybrand collected art, Agnes grew tropical plants, just like the pineapple on the front left. What hobbies could we do together?  

    Image: Jan Weenix (1642-1719), Portrait of Agnes Block (1629-1704), Sybrand de Flines (1623-1697) and two children at the Vijverhof estate, ca. 1694

    Van Speyk voor het praalgraf van de Ruyter 1832 Hendrik Breukelaar

    Question 6

    Jan van Speijk stands here in front of the mausoleum of 17th-century Michiel de Ruyter, his hero. Who is your hero?

    Image: Adriaen Backer (ca. 1636-1684), Jan van Speijk in front of de Ruyter’s mausoleum, 1832

    Luciano de Boterman, 1983

    Question 7

    On 1 June 2020, Luciano the Boterman photographed at the Dam Square and captured the Black Lives Matter protest. As a citizen, do you consider it a duty to demonstrate if you disagree with something?

    Image: Luciano de Boterman, 1983

    William Lindhout (1941-2014) Mijnheer Weng op zijn middagwandeling, ter hoogte van het Chinees-Indisch Restaurant Fong Sing, Lange Niezel 24, ca. 1980

    Question 8

    What is your favourite food? And what cuisine would you still like to try?

    Image: William Lindhout (1941-2014)   Mr. Weng on his afternoon walk, near the Chinese-Indian Restaurant Fong Sing, Lange Niezel 24, ca. 1980

    Sophia Adriana de Bruijn (1816-1890), Thérèse Schwartze

    Question 9

    At age 74, Sophia Lopez Suasso commissioned a portrait of herself, for which she did not pose, but instead had the painter work from a photograph taken thirty years earlier. How vain are you?

    Image: Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918), Portrait of Sophia Adriana de Bruijn as a young woman, based on a daguerreotype from ca.1860

    Question 10

    If you were an artist and you were to create one masterpiece, what would you create?