This year, Wereldmuseum is part of the Amsterdam Light Festival again. From 26 November 2026 through 17 January 2027, you can experience the interactive artwork Resurgent Streams by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the middle of the Lichthal. Starting December 19th, you can also visit the museum for free in the evening for five weekends.
This year, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam is part of Amsterdam Light Festival again. From 26 November 2026 through 17 January 2027, the interactive light artwork Resurgent Streams stands in the middle of our Lichthal. Access to the artwork is included with a museum ticket, for example in combination with a visit to the temporary exhibitions DISCO or Play!
The light installation Resurgent Streams by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is dedicated to contemporary Mexican Indigenous poetry. In the artwork, letters and words flow in constantly changing paths across a vertical wall. The installation contains poems in languages including Tsotsil, Mayo, Purépecha, Náhuatl, Mixe, Ch’ol, Mixteco, Zoque, Maya and Zapotec. When you stand in front of the artwork and move, poems emerge from the stream of letters. In this way, you become part of the artwork.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer creates art works that invite the visiters to participate themselves, using technologies like robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks. He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale and he has also shown at Biennials in Cuenca, Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne NGV, Moscow, New Orleans, New York ICP, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Wuzhen.
Because we are part of Amsterdam Light Festival, the museum will be open in the evenings from the Christmas holidays onward! From 19 December through 17 January, you can visit Wereldmuseum for free on Saturdays and Sundays from 19:00 to 22:00. Discover the interactive light installation Resurgent Streams, the new exhibitions DISCO and Play!, our permanent exhibitions and our holiday programme for all ages.