Eye Filmmuseum
Eye Filmmuseum—also known as the EYE Filminstituut—is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam dedicated to preserving and presenting Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Its predecessor, the Dutch Historical Film Archive, was founded in 1946 by David van Staveren, Felix Halverstad, and directors of Filmtheater Kriterion, including Piet Meerburg and Paul Kijzer. Under the first director, film collector Jan de Vaal, it was renamed the Netherlands Filmmuseum, and it later moved from Kriterion and the Stedelijk Museum to a discrete space in the Vondelpark Pavilion in 1975. In 2009, the Nederlands Filmmuseum merged with Holland Film, the Netherlands Institute for Film Education, and the Filmbank, paving the way for a new waterfront home. The Eye Filmmuseum building, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, includes a 300-seat cinema plus two 127-seat cinemas and a smaller cinema of about 67 seats. …
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