STRAAT Museum brings street art and graffiti into a former NDSM warehouse in Amsterdam-Noord. Its monumental, often on-site works keep the scale of outdoor walls, while museum interpretation gives visitors time to explore artists, styles, and stories.
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STRAAT occupies a former warehouse on the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam-Noord.
The museum’s current exhibition includes more than 180 works by over 170 artists, and many were created on site.
Eduardo Kobra’s 2016 Anne Frank mural on the NDSM wharf, Let Me Be Myself, covers 240 square metres.
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Inside STRAAT Museum, a painted figure can occupy the height of a building wall. The scale is the first clue to what makes this museum unusual: it does not simply hang small samples of street art. It gives the form room to keep its public proportions. STRAAT is in Amsterdam-Noord, within Amsterdam’s former NDSM shipyard district, and occupies a former warehouse on the wharf.
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