Eye Filmmuseum The Eye Filmmuseum building is designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, whose other projects include the
Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. The building features two gallery exhibition spaces, one 300-seat cinema, two 127-seat cinemas, and a fourth intimate cinema of about 67 seats. One of the gallery spaces is devoted to a permanent exhibition on the technical and aesthetic histories of cinema. The exhibit includes historical equipment drawn from the Museum's collection of approximately 1,500 cinematic apparatuses, as well as an immersive presentation of about one hundred film clips from the Museum's archive, including Dutch and international films dating from the silent era and beyond. The second gallery space is dedicated to experimental cinema or
expanded cinema, a commitment which dates back to the Filmmuseum's founding and the weekly screenings it organized at the
Stedelijk Museum in the 1950s under the emerging aegis of cinema as a "
seventh art." Past exhibitions in this space have focused on auteurs and cinematographers, as well as video artists and visual artists like
Ryoji Ikeda and
Anthony McCall.
Eye Collection Center In 2016, Eye opened its new Collection Center, designed by cepezed. The collection is made up of analog, digitized, and born-digital materials which are situated beside a sound restoration and digitization studio, a digital image restoration studio, and a grading and scanning suite. The collection includes 210,000 cans of acetate film, 57,000 film titles, 2.5 petabytes of digital data, 82,000 posters, 700,000 photographs, 27,000 books, 2,000 journals, 1,500 pre-cinema and film apparatuses, 4,500
magic lantern slides, 7,000 musical scores, and 250,000 press cuttings. Two of these bunkers were built during the Second World War to protect Dutch art museum holdings from theft and destruction;
Rembrandt's The Night Watch was among a few of the paintings which were stored in the Castricum bunker for part of the war. == Restorations ==