WHAT’S NEW SINCE YOU

Nxt Museum (Asterweg 22; nxtmuseum.com), the

Netherlands’ first museum of art dedicated to new media, has opened

in the increasingly hip Amsterdam Noord area,

promising large-scale multi-sensory exhibitions

and all manner of mind-expanding events

High among my all-time favourite Amsterdam chefs, Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot have opened De Juwelier (Utrechtsestraat 51; 00312 0247 1007; restaurantdejuwelier.nl; three courses around €50/£43). It is a less haute – and

less stratospherically priced – alternative to

their two-Michelinstarred Restaurant 212: accessible, affordable

cuisine with not a quantum of compromise

in quality

When Covid is gone, the climate crisis will still be with us – the Good Shop

(Rokin 102; fashion forgood.com) is doing its

bit with a changing, curated collection of sustainable fashion from

around the world

The former owners of

the popular Getto bar in the red-light district have opened Lola The

Green Aardvark (Mauritskade 100-AH;

00312 0737 0862; lolathegreenaardvarl.nl)

in the eastern part of town. Clientele is mixed,

though largely LGBTQ+, and there is a large terrace

with a friendly neighbourhood feel

A sombre reminder that times were once far more frightening than these, the National Holocaust

Names Memorial (holocaustnamen monument.nl) will be unveiled by King WillemAlexander tomorrow.

Designed by PolishAmerican architect Daniel Libeskind, this important

addition to the Amsterdam cityscape comprises more than 102,000 bricks, each bearing the name of a Dutch victim of

the Holocaust