Summer holidays in Eye

Are you looking for a fun day out with the children or grandchildren in Amsterdam during the summer vacation? Visit Eye for the best family films, interactive tours and much more!

There's always something to do for children in Eye during the summer holidays. Every day, there's a family-friendly film, like Tummy Tom and the lost teddybear and Inside Out 2. Children aged 4 through 12 can take on Eye's Mission Supereyes discovery route, which criss-crosses through the museum building. Or come and enjoy the sun on our terrace, overlooking the IJ.

Discovery route for families

Go on a mission together in the exhibition, free for 17 and under. Pick up the booklet when you visit the exhibition and discover the superpowers in your eyes!

still Inside Out 2 (Binnenstebuiten 2) (Kelsey Mann, US 2024)

Inside Out 2

Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 returns to Riley’s brain now she has become a teenager right when head office has to make room for new emotions.

still from Dikkie Dik en de verdwenen knuffel (Joost van den Bosch & Erik Verkerk, NL 2024)

still Dikkie Dik en de verdwenen knuffel (Joost van den Bosch & Erik Verkerk, NL 2024)

Tummy Tom and the lost teddybear

Orange cat Tummy Tom makes his debut in a lead role in this do-and-sing-along animated film.

poster Dikkie Dik en de verdwenen knuffel (Joost van den Bosch & Erik Verkerk, NL 2024)

Children's screenings

During the summer holidays you can see the most beautiful children's films every day in Eye's four screens.

A child moves shapes over a light box in the animation table in Eye

Animation tables

At the animation tables on the stairs leading to Cinema 1 you can use your own telephone and a free app to make your own stop-motion film.

Four kids move in front of the Green Screen installation

Exhibition: What is Film?

Find out more about the history of film, make your very own crazy mini-film or chill in a film pod. It's all possible in the interactive exhibition What is Film?.

Flipbook

Star in your own mini-movie: make a flipbook in the Flipbook Machine at Eye Filmmuseum!

Eye Bar & Restaurant terras © Corinne de Korver

Enjoy a drink, a bite to eat, and a film

Visit the most beautiful terrace in Amsterdam

See the menu and book your table

Various characters from films by Joel and Ethan Coen are depicted against a yellow-orange background

The Coen Brothers Complete

Summer programme centring on Joel and Ethan Coen, the most famous oddballs in Hollywood. Eye will screen all the brothers’ films including the 4K restoration of Blood Simple.

On the edge of a dark forest, a man in an 18th century costume with a white powdered wig looks into the distance

still Liberté (Albert Serra, FR/DE/PT/ES 2019)

Albert Serra – Liberté

Eye Filmmuseum presents Albert Serra – Liberté. For this exhibition, Serra has turned the entire gallery into an immersive set, filled with nocturnal and clandestine encounters.

Previously Unreleased

Selected for (inter)national festivals, but never shown in Dutch cinemas on wide release. Every summer, Eye puts an end to this injustice with Previously Unreleased.