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🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

🎭 A special highlight: @o.festival.rotterdam brings a music theatre performance to a container on the quay at Fenix. A story about Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour. In this 25-minute performance, the audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

Get a combination ticket for the performance ánd Fenix for just € 20.

✨ 500.000 visitors ✨ Today marks exactly one year since Fenix opened its doors 🎈 In the first twelve months, half a million people visited Fenix.

This milestone brings pride, and above all, gratitude. What stands out is the diversity of visitors, from near and far, each bringing their own story.

You may recognise something of your own story, or that of someone you love, in one of the artworks. At Fenix, migration appears through the eyes of artists: timeless and universal, human and part of everyday life.

Thank you for being part of this first year. 💛

✨ 500.000 visitors ✨ Today marks exactly one year since Fenix opened its doors 🎈 In the first twelve months, half a million people visited Fenix.

This milestone brings pride, and above all, gratitude. What stands out is the diversity of visitors, from near and far, each bringing their own story.

You may recognise something of your own story, or that of someone you love, in one of the artworks. At Fenix, migration appears through the eyes of artists: timeless and universal, human and part of everyday life.

Thank you for being part of this first year. 💛

✨ 500.000 visitors ✨ Today marks exactly one year since Fenix opened its doors 🎈 In the first twelve months, half a million people visited Fenix.

This milestone brings pride, and above all, gratitude. What stands out is the diversity of visitors, from near and far, each bringing their own story.

You may recognise something of your own story, or that of someone you love, in one of the artworks. At Fenix, migration appears through the eyes of artists: timeless and universal, human and part of everyday life.

Thank you for being part of this first year. 💛

🧵 Vyshyvanka Day 2026 is coming to Fenix Rotterdam!

Join us for a day of workshops, performances, and presentations celebrating vyshyvankas and traditional embroidery from around the world.

🪡 Vyshyvanka refers to the embroidered shirt in Ukrainian national dress. It is defined by this embroidery, which carries several layers of meaning and symbolism, signalling regional and national identity within its many forms.

All of this unfolds inside @fenix — Rotterdam’s museum of migration on the Katendrecht waterfront.

The space itself sparks creativity. ✨

Art belongs in a museum — and vyshyvanka is art.
Bring your unfinished embroidery, we’ll finish it together. 🧵

👗 Plus: a contest for the most creative folk-inspired outfit, with a valuable prize for the winner.

📍 Fenix Plein, Dolf Henkesplein 1, 3072 LN Rotterdam
🗓️ 23.05 | 12:00-16:00
🎟️ Free entrance — registration required via link in bio

📹 @nadsflavors

Organised by @vataha.nl
In partnership with @fenix
Supported by @ukr_embassy_nl
Made possible thanks to @elisemathildefonds

Big news: Fenix is expanding📍🔜 After welcoming half a million visitors in its first year, Fenix takes its next step this autumn with a new exhibition space of nearly 650 square metres.

The new gallery creates more room for artists to share stories of migration and will host several temporary exhibitions each year, alongside All Directions, The Family of Migrants and The Suitcase Labyrinth.

Opening in November: an exhibition by the international artist collective @slavsandtatars. For twenty years, the collective has explored the region between the former Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China. Through humour and sharply observed installations, they reveal how porous borders truly are, with food, myths and language moving freely across them.

Departure, journey, arrival. Migration is often depicted as a straight line from A to B. In reality, that line is seldom direct. Migration isn’t linear; it’s layered and unpredictable ‒ a process shaped by detours, pauses, turning points, and unexpected twists.

The route 'In-between' takes you past the artworks of ten women artists who explore the in-between space of migration. It could be a conversation that shifts your perspective, a small incident that redirects a life unexpectedly or a culture carried to a new place, where it takes on fresh meaning.

Visit the exhibition All Directions → tickets → link in bio

📷 @titiahahnephoto

Departure, journey, arrival. Migration is often depicted as a straight line from A to B. In reality, that line is seldom direct. Migration isn’t linear; it’s layered and unpredictable ‒ a process shaped by detours, pauses, turning points, and unexpected twists.

The route 'In-between' takes you past the artworks of ten women artists who explore the in-between space of migration. It could be a conversation that shifts your perspective, a small incident that redirects a life unexpectedly or a culture carried to a new place, where it takes on fresh meaning.

Visit the exhibition All Directions → tickets → link in bio

📷 @titiahahnephoto

Departure, journey, arrival. Migration is often depicted as a straight line from A to B. In reality, that line is seldom direct. Migration isn’t linear; it’s layered and unpredictable ‒ a process shaped by detours, pauses, turning points, and unexpected twists.

The route 'In-between' takes you past the artworks of ten women artists who explore the in-between space of migration. It could be a conversation that shifts your perspective, a small incident that redirects a life unexpectedly or a culture carried to a new place, where it takes on fresh meaning.

Visit the exhibition All Directions → tickets → link in bio

📷 @titiahahnephoto

Departure, journey, arrival. Migration is often depicted as a straight line from A to B. In reality, that line is seldom direct. Migration isn’t linear; it’s layered and unpredictable ‒ a process shaped by detours, pauses, turning points, and unexpected twists.

The route 'In-between' takes you past the artworks of ten women artists who explore the in-between space of migration. It could be a conversation that shifts your perspective, a small incident that redirects a life unexpectedly or a culture carried to a new place, where it takes on fresh meaning.

Visit the exhibition All Directions → tickets → link in bio

📷 @titiahahnephoto

Departure, journey, arrival. Migration is often depicted as a straight line from A to B. In reality, that line is seldom direct. Migration isn’t linear; it’s layered and unpredictable ‒ a process shaped by detours, pauses, turning points, and unexpected twists.

The route 'In-between' takes you past the artworks of ten women artists who explore the in-between space of migration. It could be a conversation that shifts your perspective, a small incident that redirects a life unexpectedly or a culture carried to a new place, where it takes on fresh meaning.

Visit the exhibition All Directions → tickets → link in bio

📷 @titiahahnephoto

From 27 to 31 May, @o.festival.rotterdam brings together performance and stories of migration at Fenix. On the quay, inside a container, they present a 25-minute music performance. We offer a combined ticket: Containerbegrip + museum admission.

Containerbegrip tells the story of Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour, where he operated a crane. He left his family and friends behind and lived in a container home with bunk beds, with little more than memories of the mountains and cassette tapes he had sent to his family. The audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

→ Visit the performance and continue into the museum for a combined ticket of € 20.
Find tickets at fenix.nl/agenda

From 27 to 31 May, @o.festival.rotterdam brings together performance and stories of migration at Fenix. On the quay, inside a container, they present a 25-minute music performance. We offer a combined ticket: Containerbegrip + museum admission.

Containerbegrip tells the story of Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour, where he operated a crane. He left his family and friends behind and lived in a container home with bunk beds, with little more than memories of the mountains and cassette tapes he had sent to his family. The audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

→ Visit the performance and continue into the museum for a combined ticket of € 20.
Find tickets at fenix.nl/agenda

From 27 to 31 May, @o.festival.rotterdam brings together performance and stories of migration at Fenix. On the quay, inside a container, they present a 25-minute music performance. We offer a combined ticket: Containerbegrip + museum admission.

Containerbegrip tells the story of Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour, where he operated a crane. He left his family and friends behind and lived in a container home with bunk beds, with little more than memories of the mountains and cassette tapes he had sent to his family. The audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

→ Visit the performance and continue into the museum for a combined ticket of € 20.
Find tickets at fenix.nl/agenda

From 27 to 31 May, @o.festival.rotterdam brings together performance and stories of migration at Fenix. On the quay, inside a container, they present a 25-minute music performance. We offer a combined ticket: Containerbegrip + museum admission.

Containerbegrip tells the story of Emre’s grandfather, who came to the Netherlands from Turkey as a guest worker at the Rotterdam harbour, where he operated a crane. He left his family and friends behind and lived in a container home with bunk beds, with little more than memories of the mountains and cassette tapes he had sent to his family. The audience is taken through his story and the legacy of his migration for the second generation.

→ Visit the performance and continue into the museum for a combined ticket of € 20.
Find tickets at fenix.nl/agenda

When Maksut talks about Anatolian food, he rarely talks about recipes. He talks about people.

About memories passed on without being written down. About techniques learned by watching, tasting, helping, hand to hand, generation to generation. In Anatolia, food was never fixed. It lived, changed, travelled.

Born in the south of Turkey, with Syrian roots, raised within Turkish culture, Maksut grew up in a region shaped by spice routes, migration, and more than seventy civilizations. A kitchen influenced by Mesopotamia, by the Middle East, by seasons and place. For him, that richness isn’t something to preserve behind glass, it’s something to carry forward. Not freezing them in time, but allowing them to evolve, so the next generation can understand them, feel them, and take them further.

At ‘O’, that way of thinking becomes tangible. Food as a shared language. As a bridge. As a place where tradition meets the present, quietly, without explanation, but with intention.

When Maksut talks about Anatolian food, he rarely talks about recipes. He talks about people.

About memories passed on without being written down. About techniques learned by watching, tasting, helping, hand to hand, generation to generation. In Anatolia, food was never fixed. It lived, changed, travelled.

Born in the south of Turkey, with Syrian roots, raised within Turkish culture, Maksut grew up in a region shaped by spice routes, migration, and more than seventy civilizations. A kitchen influenced by Mesopotamia, by the Middle East, by seasons and place. For him, that richness isn’t something to preserve behind glass, it’s something to carry forward. Not freezing them in time, but allowing them to evolve, so the next generation can understand them, feel them, and take them further.

At ‘O’, that way of thinking becomes tangible. Food as a shared language. As a bridge. As a place where tradition meets the present, quietly, without explanation, but with intention.

You can now see a first edition of Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl) by Anne Frank in the exhibition All Directions. The book finds a natural place in the museum, where it tells a story about war, identity, and the search for a place to call home.

Anne Frank fled to the Netherlands with her family in 1933, as antisemitism in Germany intensified. While in hiding, she writes about her wish to become a Dutch citizen, something she never sees fulfilled. She dies stateless in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. After her death, she becomes a Dutch icon, widely recognised for a nationality she was never granted.

Read more on our website, or visit the museum → link in bio

You can now see a first edition of Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl) by Anne Frank in the exhibition All Directions. The book finds a natural place in the museum, where it tells a story about war, identity, and the search for a place to call home.

Anne Frank fled to the Netherlands with her family in 1933, as antisemitism in Germany intensified. While in hiding, she writes about her wish to become a Dutch citizen, something she never sees fulfilled. She dies stateless in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. After her death, she becomes a Dutch icon, widely recognised for a nationality she was never granted.

Read more on our website, or visit the museum → link in bio

You can now see a first edition of Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl) by Anne Frank in the exhibition All Directions. The book finds a natural place in the museum, where it tells a story about war, identity, and the search for a place to call home.

Anne Frank fled to the Netherlands with her family in 1933, as antisemitism in Germany intensified. While in hiding, she writes about her wish to become a Dutch citizen, something she never sees fulfilled. She dies stateless in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. After her death, she becomes a Dutch icon, widely recognised for a nationality she was never granted.

Read more on our website, or visit the museum → link in bio

Fenix is about movement 🌪️

tickets → fenix.nl

For this 925 sterling silver brooch, jewellery label The Boyscouts draws inspiration from the Tornado. The spiral shape evokes movement and shifting perspectives, much like the journey of a migrant, as architect Ma Yansong describes it. 🌪️

The pin is available at the museum shop in Fenix.

📷 1: Titia Hahne 2, 3: Casper Rila Wilderlicht

For this 925 sterling silver brooch, jewellery label The Boyscouts draws inspiration from the Tornado. The spiral shape evokes movement and shifting perspectives, much like the journey of a migrant, as architect Ma Yansong describes it. 🌪️

The pin is available at the museum shop in Fenix.

📷 1: Titia Hahne 2, 3: Casper Rila Wilderlicht

For this 925 sterling silver brooch, jewellery label The Boyscouts draws inspiration from the Tornado. The spiral shape evokes movement and shifting perspectives, much like the journey of a migrant, as architect Ma Yansong describes it. 🌪️

The pin is available at the museum shop in Fenix.

📷 1: Titia Hahne 2, 3: Casper Rila Wilderlicht

Vote for Fenix for the Rotterdam Architecture Prize! 💫🗳️

The Rotterdam Architecture Prize highlights the best new buildings in the city each year. The award ceremony takes place during Rotterdam Architecture Month in June 2026. Fenix is one of the ten nominees.

Cast your vote for Fenix via: rotterdamarchitectuurprijs.nl/prijs-2026/fenix

@airrotterdam @rotterdamarchitectuurmaand

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda

During the May Holidays, Plein is open, and there is something for everyone. Get creative at the crafts table, join us for a soup with @vrijheidsmaaltijden.rotterdam, or watch a special performance by @connyjanssendanst or @codartsglobalmusics.

See the full programme → fenix.nl/agenda