Opening 'Once Upon a Time.... The Collection Now'

The programme

14.30
opening speeches by Charles Esche, director Van Abbemuseum and Mary-Ann Schreurs, alderman Innovation, Design, Culture and Public Space, Eindhoven municipality

From 15.00 until 19.00 we have a varied programme with musical, theatrical and artistic pop-up activities and free guided tours.

15.00 -18.00
Surviving Suicide Delirium
Het Zuidelijk Toneel has donated a text by playwright Paul Pourveur to the Van Abbemuseum. On the occasion of the opening, the piece, based on four works from the museum’s collection, will be staged in a continuous performance.
Location: leszaal (education room).

15.00 - 18.00
‘The museum choir’
Volunteers of the Van Abbemuseum have composed a special repertoire of songs, singing music from the artworks in the museum. Throughout the afternoon, they will sing in different locations in the New Building.
Location: New Building.

15.00 - 18.00
Free guided tours through the exhibition Once upon a time… Register at the information desk in the entrance hall of the Old Building.

15.30 and 17.00
Explanation self-guided tour Punt.Point
Artist and choreographer Sara Wookey and architect Rennie Tang have developed the self-guided tour Punt.Point as a unique way to experience the exhibition Once upon a time… This tour includes a wearable tool-kit that invites the participant to explore different ways of inhabiting the architecture of a museum and permits new modes of behavior in an otherwise restricted environment. Participants emerge from this tour with a contribution to an accumulating collection of re-positionings. During the opening afternoon the designers will explain the tour.
Location: DIY archive, 1st floor of the New Building.

17.30 – 19.00 
Bites and drinks in museum café Karel 1.