Visiting Moco Museum feels more like walking through a grand townhouse than a large museum. You enter a villa from 1904 and move from room to room. On the walls hang works by Banksy, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Yayoi Kusama. A few rooms further on, you stand in the middle of digital and immersive art. The private museum opened in 2016. It sits on Museumplein, close to the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, which makes it easy to combine with a day of art in the area.
- Location
- Honthorststraat 20, on Museumplein, Amsterdam
- Type
- Modern, contemporary and street art
- Highlights
- Banksy, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama and immersive digital art
- Time needed
- About an hour and a half
- Museumkaart
- Not valid, but holders get a discount
- Good to know
- No lift, so not accessible by wheelchair
What you see at Moco Museum
Moco Museum focuses on modern, contemporary and street art. You see work by names you know from posters and city walls: Banksy, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, KAWS and Yayoi Kusama. Mark Rothko and Jeff Koons have also been shown here. The hang is personal and close together, so you stand right next to the works. Several exhibitions run at the same time, often including a presentation around Banksy and a part with immersive, digital art. Want to see how this compares to an older modern art collection? The Stedelijk Museum is also on Museumplein.
Digital art in an old house
What sets the museum apart is the mix of old and new. In one room you look at a painting by Warhol; in the next you walk through a space where the artwork is built around you. The rooms with immersive and digital art show how artists work with light, image and screens today. That contrast with the stately rooms of the villa works well, and you briefly forget you are standing in a house that is more than a hundred years old. After your visit you can step out into the Moco Garden.
Villa Alsberg on Museumplein
The museum is housed in Villa Alsberg, a townhouse designed in 1904 by Eduard Cuypers. He was a nephew of Pierre Cuypers, the architect of the Rijksmuseum across the square. The house was built for the banker Siegmund Alsberg and remained a home until 1939. In 2016 Kim Logchies-Prins and Lionel Logchies opened the museum here. Since then, Moco has opened branches in Barcelona and London, but Amsterdam was the first. Because it is a private museum, it does not take part in the Museumkaart scheme.
Planning your visit to Moco Museum
A standard ticket comes with a time slot. Arrive at the start of your slot to be sure of entry, as there is only a five minute margin. Prefer flexibility? Tickets without a time slot are also available. Set aside about an hour and a half for the full collection. The Museumkaart, the Dutch annual museum pass, is not valid, but holders get a discount online and at the door. The villa has many stairs and no lift, so it is not accessible by wheelchair, and children under 16 must come with an adult. There is no room for luggage inside. Close by on Museumplein you find the Van Gogh Museum.
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Tickets for Moco Museum are available through our ticket partner Tiqets.
Tickets for Moco Museum