Since its creation in 2012, Street Art Museum of Amsterdam has always had a global and inclusive perspective on the artists in its...

Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA) realiseert drie monumentale streetart kunstwerken in de stadsdelen Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Noord en...

Lunar is one of the most recognised artists in SAMA's ample collection. Since the 1990s, the Croatian artist has rewritten the aesthetics...

In 1997, Sarah Giller claimed that "graffiti is a visual means of resisting the privatisation of public space", i.e. an ant-hegemonic art...

In Coronatijd merken we een sterke toename in eenzaamheid en somberheid onder jongeren. Deze groep bleek het afgelopen decennia al hard...

The idea for this blog post came after receiving an email from Martin Blum at MIND.WORK, who very kindly sent us and donated, a...

Throughout our daily lives we are confronted with the question of anonymity. Be it from performing a selfless act and deciding wether or...

In 2019, SAMA began a project to digitise its collection with the aim of preserving and disseminating its artworks. The museum's...

In his dense theorizing about relational aesthetics (Esthétique relationnelle, 1998) and the possibility of a socially compromised public...

Where are you from? What do you study/What are you doing in Amsterdam? I was born in Sassari, a small city in Sardinia, Italy. After high...

AMSTERDAM – Alle musea in Nederland zijn tijdens de lockdown dicht. Alle musea? Nee: in Amsterdam is het Street Art Museum als een van de...

For those of you currently reading this, who aren't presently aware, The city of Amsterdam seems to be going through an identity change...

JDL Street Art, also known as Judith de Leeuw, is a 24 year-old born and raised in Amsterdam. We, here at SAMA, have had the pleasure of...

This year, which felt like a Mexican Stand Off, I joined SAMA in a very similar fashion to Haye, please read my story here; and I have...

Finding a new identity is often a process of struggles and uphill battles. It takes determination and sometimes, bridges have to be burnt...

Before I tell you about the new direction of SAMA, let me quickly introduce myself. I’m a 25-year old kid from rural Zeeland. I studied...

Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a...

Om je een beeld te geven van Nieuw-West; het stadsdeel van Amsterdam waar je mooie wandelingen kan maken omringt door groen. Denk...

For my MA dissertation this year, I chose to study the Street Art Museum, Amsterdam (SAMA) as one of the case studies and also did an...

Many times when we walk down the street, we no longer pay attention to the environment around us. By habit, weariness or inattention......