Every school vacation, children from Amsterdam get the chance to collaborate on a work of art during the Amsterdam Museum Camp, based on a particular theme. In 2024, this theme was identity. What does identity mean to them, and how is it expressed? Can you change your identity? Is identity something you can put on? Or is identity made of wood, or perhaps glass?

The artworks, which the children created under the guidance of artists, range from stained glass to video. The works are now on display at the Amsterdam Museum in the small exhibition of the ELJA Children's Museum Lab.

What's on display?

Made during the may holiday

Children from Amsterdam Center created a video artwork about their alter egos under the guidance of Judith Schuur. Oscar Peters worked with children from Weesp on catapults that could fire identities. Little artists from Zuid made scale models of a maze together with Baukje Duin, and in Zuidoost, with the help of George Adegite, identities were expressed in shoes.

Made during the fall break

Inner worlds of children were depicted in figurines thanks to Isa van Lier, while children in Noord illuminated their positive and negative sides with stained-glass artist Robin Kapitein. In West, Koos Buster developed decorative signs with the children and in New West, scents were central to the sculpture the children made with Yazan Maksoud.