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Amsterdam Light Festival

Enjoy the Amsterdam Light Festival from 27 November 2025 to 18 January 2026. A light art installation can be admired on the NEMO Science Museum building.

  • 27 November 2025 to 18 January 2026
  • Centre of Amsterdam
  • From €6,99
  • All ages

Theme

Edition 14 of the Amsterdam Light Festival is dedicated to the theme of Legacy: from major historical and climatic events to personal traditions and memories. What traces do we leave behind? Which stories do we pass on? How do we want to be remembered?

Artwork at NEMO: Fracture Point

Filip Roca's artwork Fracture Point is projected onto the NEMO building.

The projection features large, grid-like 3D shapes that break, bend and shift. They represent how we view our past, how we change, and how old habits can sometimes prevent us from seeing new opportunities. Are we really evolving, or are we just doing the same thing in a different way?

Roca uses the lines and shapes of the NEMO building in his artwork. By playing with what is already there and what you can still imagine, the artwork makes you think about the future: who we could become, regardless of what lies behind us.

Practical information

Dates and times

The Amsterdam Light Festival runs from 27 November 2025 to 18 January 2026.

The lights are on at the following times:

27 November 2025 to 19 December 2025

  • Wednesday to Saturday: 16:30 - 23:00
  • Sunday to Tuesday: 16:30 - 22:00

20 December 2025 to 4 Januari 2026 (Christmas holidays)

  • Daily from 16:30 - 23:00
  • On New Year's Eve (Wednesday 31 December), the lights will go out at 21:00.

5 January to 18 January 2026

  • Wednesday to Saturday: 16:30 - 23:00
  • Sunday to Tuesday: 16:30 - 22:00

Route and tickets

The artworks can be enjoyed on foot, by bicycle or by boat. A boat trip takes approximately 75 minutes and can be booked on the Amsterdam Light Festival website. The walking route is 6.5 kilometres long and can be found in the Amsterdam Light Festival app.

Visit the Amsterdam Light Festival website for more information and tickets.