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Spray Paint, Hiphop, and Youth: Welcome to the MooiMakers
Located at a playground in the heart of an apartment complex, little faces begin peaking from their balcony ledges at the scene below....
Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Jun 15, 20224 min read
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Howdy, this is Abby Golden!
Where are you from? What are you doing in Amsterdam? I am from Florida, United States and am a rising senior at Smith College in...
Abby Golden
Jun 9, 20224 min read
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Street Art & Democracy - Now open!
Street art has an undeniable presence in Amsterdam. In the exhibition and publication Street Art & Democracy we look back at the first...
Leonie Wingen
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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Goodbye EU STAR conference !
As an intern at SAMA, I had the opportunity to participate in the EU STAR Conference. For three days I followed the delegations from 14...

Maëva Fontaine
May 30, 20224 min read
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Street Art & Democracy - Pipsqueak was here!!!
On the occasion of the exhibition 'Street Art & Democracy' initiated and organised by Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA), Pipsqueak was...

Anna Stolyarova
May 25, 20222 min read
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Bevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day
Today is a red letter day. The 5th of May marks Liberation Day in the Netherlands. But what happened on that day ? Let’s put it in...

Maëva Fontaine
May 5, 20222 min read
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Street Art & SAMA : many people ask...
➜ Where is the museum located ? Stichting STREET ART MUSEUM AMSTERDAM (SAMA) is located in a part of Amsterdam called Nieuw-West. It is...

Maëva Fontaine
Apr 21, 20223 min read
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Bloomberg Philanthropies launched the Asphalt Art Initiative in Europe
Bloomberg Philanthropies are working with cities in order to improve the quality of life of neighborhoods by doing studies or by creating...

Maëva Fontaine
Apr 21, 20222 min read
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Bonjour, I am Maëva Fontaine !
Where are you from? What are you doing in Amsterdam? I am from the north of France, more precisely from Normandy. As a matter of fact,...

Maëva Fontaine
Apr 19, 20224 min read
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New Street Art: Our House or the People of De Havelaar by JAUNE (BE)
In March 2021, Montse Lloveras from Combiwel buurtnetwerk, which resides in De Havelaar, approached SAMA with the idea of creating an...

Anna Stolyarova
Mar 21, 20225 min read
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Street Art & Democracy - Upcoming exhibition
We are very happy to announce that Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst had awarded our Street Art Museum a grant for the new exhibition...

Anna Stolyarova
Mar 2, 20224 min read
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Street Art Museum - Building a Dynamic Archive
The future of SAMA’s collection is digital. With roughly 70% of its physical collection being demolished, painted over or in any other...
Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Mar 1, 20224 min read
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Research – A new collaboration in Nieuw-West
The Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA), the Van Eesteren Museum and the Amsterdam Museum are three museums that provide cultural...
Street Art Museum Amsterdam
Mar 1, 20222 min read
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Hello, I am Ainhoa Janices Estraviz!
Where are you from? What are you doing in Amsterdam? I am from a small town in the North of Spain, called Llanes. After finishing my...

Anna Stolyarova
Feb 18, 20224 min read
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Achievements 2021
The year of 2021 was one of the most productive and diverse periods in SAMA's history. The strategy created at the end of 2020 was...

Anna Stolyarova
Jan 8, 20224 min read
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Welcome, Leonie Wingen!
Nieuwe Collectiemanager Mijn naam is Leonie Wingen, ik woon in Amsterdam-West, en ben in November begonnen bij SAMA in de nieuwe functie...
Leonie Wingen
Dec 26, 20215 min read
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Goodbye Ginevra!
Re-introduction I’m Ginevra Galilei, an intercultural and linguistic mediator who spent 4 months at SAMA through the Erasmus+ Traineeship...
GINEVRA GALILEI
Dec 21, 20213 min read
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Surround Sound on Plein 40-45 - Bringing a neighbourhood market to life
On Saturday 16th of October the official participatory construction of the first part of SURROUND SOUND has commenced. It is a brand new...
GINEVRA GALILEI
Oct 26, 20216 min read
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SPOT Schiphol community project
What is the SPOT Schiphol community? The SPOT Schiphol Community is a large online and offline business platform for every employeein the...
GINEVRA GALILEI
Oct 21, 20215 min read
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DAY 2: Street Art for Social Inclusion Perspetives and Examples + ALDA workshop - Lisbon
The following two EU STAR Lisbon meetings on Thursday were organized by Clube Intercultural Europeu in collaboration with the expert...
GINEVRA GALILEI
Oct 20, 20214 min read
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