Street art is a thriving cultural phenomena throughout the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, with the city even featuring its very own street art museum to satisfy the population’s love and hunger for all kinds of alternative modernised graffiti art. But if wandering through drafty hallways gazing at exhibitions among crowds of other tourists isn’t quite your scene, Amsterdam offers many other more down-to-earth and less conventional ways of viewing some edgy art.
If you’d rather go on a scavenger hunt to find some art, there’s an ever growing handful of sites across Amsterdam that make this possible. Take the space invaders tiles for example, a series which has been spotted across many other European capital cities, including Paris and you guessed it, Amsterdam! The artist has caused quite the stir in the world wide web as he “invades” space after space (haha see what I did there)! See below for supporting visual:
In addition to retro mosaic art displays, Amsterdam also features many abandoned buildings which now serve as giant decaying canvases for the budding graffiti culture. The most prominent area to discover a large collection of decadent displays of graffiti to a large scale would be the neighbourhood of Wijdesteeg and Spuistraat, considered the original “HQ” of Amsterdam’s street art.
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