Explore Soestbergen, Utrecht’s oldest public cemetery, established in 1830. Renowned for its winding paths, venerable trees, and striking circle of burial vaults, this cemetery reflects the evolving history of Utrecht over nearly two centuries. During this tour, you will uncover how the city’s heritage is represented through tomb monuments and the spatial arrangement of the grounds over time.

Delve into the scientific legacy of Utrecht University with exclusive access to its renowned museum and botanical gardens. Across five exhibition rooms, you will encounter cutting-edge research from both past and present. Highlights include the exhibition Look, We Animals, featuring a mammoth skull, a narwhal tusk, and other fascinating specimens. Additionally, the exhibition Figuring It Out showcases devices used to study the human body. You will also engage with contemporary research on human behavior in Gather All People and have the opportunity to conduct hands-on experiments in Experimenting. Complete your visit by examining fossils, crystals, and corals in Thorough Investigation.

Come to your senses in this guided theatrical walk, accompanied by artist Tim Hammer and a puppet sculpted for mourning. 

Inspired by the secluded temple of Osorezan, the ‘mountain of fear’, you are invited to join this introspective experience, transforming your direct surroundings into metaphors for mourning. 

* This experience will be available as an individual walk for the duration of the seminar. This one time only, the artist will be present, adding a collective experience to this walk. The walk will be followed by a curated moment of sharing. Mourning is just as much an individual process as something that benefits from sharing.

Tot Zover (So Long) is the Dutch museum about life and death in Amsterdam, known for high-profile exhibitions, impactful events and its open approach to mortality. At the museum death – and all its aspects – is living culture. It has historical artefacts but also contemporary funeral rituals of diverse Dutch cultural groups on permanent display. The museum wants to invite a conversation about death, not as something gloomy but as an essential part of life. Curatorial choices are ‘close to embodied experience’ and the tone of voice is open, light-hearted ánd loving. Taboos are not shunned.

The museum is located at the grand Amsterdam municipal cemetery The New East, the audiotour runs between the graves and daily many funerals take place. Housed in the old undertakers building with a modern extension to suit the exhibition halls and café: life and death literally come together.

Currently on show: Travelers – new death portaits in the collection, including the famous coffin photography series by Elisabeth Heyert (USA). A Delicious Death – the role of food at end of life, the wake, funeral and commemoration and Grave series, photographs of the things people put on graves like animal statues, Buddhas, angels, hearts, footballs and gnomes.  

Learn all about the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands in this – somewhat contested – museum that opened in 2024. Three-quarters of the Dutch Jewish population – 102,000 people – were killed by the Nazis during the second world war, the highest proportion in western Europe. But, unlike some other countries, the Netherlands has never had a national museum devoted to those horrors, until recently.

This museum is according to some ‘a decisive moment in Dutch memory culture’, as it reflects a very long history of processing the invisibility of the subject in Dutch public space. The museum opened amid protests by human rights groups that voiced their anger at Israel’s continuing offensive in Gaza.

On the other side of the street from the museum, the former Hollandsche Schouwburg theatre, where 46,000 Jewish people were held on their way to the camps, is now a memorial.