Melkweg
Melkweg—Dutch for “Milky Way”—began as a working factory long before it became Amsterdam’s concert and culture hub on Lijnbaansgracht. The site traces back to a 19th-century sugar refinery, but in 1920 OVVV bought the complex and ran it as a milk factory until it closed in 1969. A year later, the building reopened as a cultural center, with its first event on July 17, 1970, led by Cor Schlösser and others. It initially ran only over the summer, then expanded into year-round programming by 1973. Today, Melkweg functions as a music venue and cultural center housed in the former dairy complex, with four music halls plus a cinema, restaurant, and exhibition space—a design that grew from the building’s industrial layout. Its scale also grew: in 1995, “The Max” opened at a capacity of 1,000, later expanding to 1,500 in 2007. …
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