STRAAT Museum
Indoor street-art museum in a vast former shipyard, with murals by over one hundred seventy artists painted directly on site.
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This guide traces STRAAT Museum's home, Amsterdam's NDSM shipyard, from the day its welding torches went silent in 1984 through the artists and squatters who claimed the abandoned steel halls. It follows how that outsider spirit turned into an eight-thousand-square-metre gallery of murals by more than one hundred seventy artists, and lingers on one Brazilian painter's days-long project on the building's steel door. Listen for how a museum meant to preserve street art got its roof leaking and a pandemic in the way before it finally opened.
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