Join us for a special screening of New Light: the Rijksmuseum and Slavery (55 minutes, 2021) in conjunction with the pop-up exhibition Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery.

About the film

What happens when the leading museum in the Netherlands focuses its gaze on the country’s history of slavery? This is the subject of New Light, a highly topical documentary from director Ida Does about the genesis of the slavery exhibition in the Rijksmuseum. This film shows in a personal way how painful and bitter, but at the same time healing and liberating, compiling the exhibition was. In New Light, we can see what it means when a museum reinvents itself. For more information about New Light: the Rijksmuseum and Slavery, the subsequent impact program, previously unseen images, and educational material, visit the website.

Ticket info

Free program. Seating is limited and unassigned. Tickets are distributed in front of the Koret Auditorium an hour before the program starts, first come, first served. This does not include admission to the museum. 

Contact info

Public Programs
publicprograms@famsf.org
415.750.7694