The John Adams Institute

Welcoming the best and brightest of American thinking

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Land of the free? (Wait List)

Four Talks on Freedom in collaboration with the KNAW

This event is free of charge, but registration is required. Currently, it is only possible to register for the wait list. Use this link or click on the red button above. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” — …...

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Who Owns the Future? Ruha Benjamin, Marietje Schaake & Robin Aïsha Pocornie

Tech, Imagination, and Inequity in the 21st Century

Please use the buy tickets button above for John Adams member and partner tickets. For non-member and student tickets, visit the ticket shop of the Rode Hoed. From the apps we use daily to the algorithms influencing everything from policing to hiring, technology is often seen as neutral, or even progressive. But what if it’s …...

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About The John Adams Institute

The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.

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American culture in the Netherlands

Kehinde Wiley’s solo exhibition at Museum Van Loon

Museum Van Loon announces Flourish: Kehinde Wiley x Museum Van Loon, the first solo exhibition of new portraits by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley. His new body of work constitutes a visual response to the portrait collection and historic interiors of Museum Van Loon. Melted into the museum’s collection, Flourish addresses ties between Western portraiture, Dutch global colonial presence and contemporary art as social and cultural practice. On view from May 29-31 Aug 2025.

American Photography exhibition Rijksmuseum

From news and advertising photos to photographic art and family snaps, no country embraced photography as quickly after its invention as the United States. This exhibition of more than 200 works shines a light on the multifaceted history of photography in America. American Photography shows how the camera has been a witness to the hopes and dreams of an entire society, and to watershed moments in history, telling the story of a country in constant flux. On view until 9 June.

‘Go on and improve in everything worthy.’

John Adams