Two days, 60 volunteers, all colleagues, artist Benjamin Li, 240,000 petals and as many pins: in mid-April 2022, the LAM created the first museum flower mosaic ever. Together with Benjamin Li, we translated a contemporary work of art into a traditional mosaic with regional petals.

'It's fantastic that we can link our food art collection to this beautiful craft tradition through the BloemenMosaic event.'

The LAM museum was extra open on Whit Monday, June 6. Fully. The Cool Types by artists Guda Koster & Frans van Tartwijk walked in and around the museum. Throughout the estate you saw surreal figures on your path, figures that you wanted to look at and for which you stood still for a moment.

The sculptures by Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk are full of playful shapes and humor. An ordinary human figure, with a special and curious appearance.

In March and November 2022, the museum opened its doors especially for the employees of the Dirk supermarket and their families. We stimulated a broad target group to pay close attention to everyday things such as food, drinks and shopping.

Paying special attention to every day life.

In 2022, the LAM museum was again the main sponsor of This Art Fair, a vibrant art fair where artists sell their work themselves. Starting artists are financially supported by the LAM museum with their stand costs. The This Works development program is made possible by the museum. During the fair, the LAM presented the Art Entrepreneur Award, an artist's prize that is not about the art, but about the entrepreneurial qualities of the maker. After the public had voted in advance for their favorite This artist, a mystery jury visited the 5 artists with the most votes. The jury consisted of artist Koos Buster, entrepreneur Ali Ahmed and LAM Viewing Coach Wies van Beek. Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries (1983) was crowned the winner. He won a cash prize of 2,500 euros and will receive a special place at the next edition of This Art Fair. Prior to the fair, the LAM museum organized a workshop for involved artists and Viewing Coaches from the LAM museum. Through techniques from the debate, participants learned to better understand the points of view of others and to respond to them.

The LAM museum in Amsterdam.

At the beginning of September 2022, 5 irresistible XXL French fries trays from the Tryater theater company stood around the LAM museum. The fries were left out so that visitors could lie in them. In each of the 5 French fries trays you heard how ordinary people look for happiness through snacks, shopping and other experiences.

Like a French frie in a box, listening to the quilty pleasures of others.

After the successful XXL fries, the LAM museum treated walkers and visitors to living still lifes at the end of September 2022. From you. Friends and families put on the food suits from the Rotterdam studio Maky and had their pictures taken as a living still life. They immediately took the portrait home.

A still life of you and your family - a photo to frame!

During the autumn holidays of 2022, visitors viewed and tasted works of art. With Taste a Work of Art, the museum added its own developed flavors to the works of art. Visitors experienced that you never look objectively. What you smell, feel, who you are with and what you taste influences what you notice.

What does taste do to your eyes?

In November 2022, 15 children took over the LAM museum. Junior Viewing Coaches aged between 8 and 12 years old received training behind the scenes and then guided visitors in the museum.

We want children to experience that their way of looking at things and their opinions matter.

In the run-up to and during the Christmas holidays, there was a party at the table in the LAM museum. Visitors set their own festive table in the drawn 'living room' of the museum, full of details from the works of art. Many families, couples and other visitors set their perfect festive table and had their pictures taken. The dishes, drinks and other 'props' referred to the project with artist Bart Eysink Smeets, which took place simultaneously in the museum. The museum made a placemat to take home with the drawn table that could be covered and personalized by cutting and pasting.

How do you celebrate at the table?

During Feast at the Table, artist Bart Eysink Smeets went back in time with visitors. Their most memorable Christmas dinner was reconstructed and converted into a work of art.

Festive memories become personal work of art

In 2022, the international collection of the LAM museum was enriched with 16 acquisitions, including works of art by Chris Soal, Folkert de Jong and Dirk Hardy.

New works of art for the collection

In addition to 7 new Viewing Coaches, the LAM office team was strengthened in 2022 with a new colleague for Development & Activation.

New colleagues

1525 students discovered the LAM in 2022. During the exclusive school programs, students were trained to become LAM trainees and LAM experts. With the LAM expert card, students receive free access to the museum for life. In 2022, our Viewing Coaches also visited schools. With the Viewing Coach in the classroom program, the museum allows students to take an extra special look at ordinary things. Children experience that the special perspective they know from the museum can also be applied outside the museum. 675 students experienced Viewing Coach in the classroom.

Students become viewing experts