Inside Villa Alsberg, an early twentieth-century residence on Museumplein, Moco places modern, contemporary and street art in domestic-scale rooms. Its history as a private home, religious residence and museum shapes how visitors encounter the work.
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Eduard Cuypers designed Villa Alsberg in 1904; the protected villa was built in 1904–06 for banker Siegmund Alsberg.
Moco opened in the villa in 2016 with an exhibition pairing Andy Warhol and Banksy.
The building later housed a pension, military functions, a religious community and offices before becoming a museum.
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At Moco Museum, a work of street art enters a house built for a banker. That change of setting is the key to this visit. Moco presents modern, contemporary, street, digital and immersive art inside Villa Alsberg, a protected early twentieth-century home on Amsterdam’s Museumplein. Instead of a vast white gallery, you move through rooms, staircases and thresholds where the building’s domestic scale remains part of the encounter.
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