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Stars of the Collection
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ANNUAL REPORT 2025
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Stars
Stars of the collection
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Check this out!
This strange looking object doesn't reveal its function easily: it most closely resembles a kitchen utensil, a cross between two…
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AMSTEL under a tree
A page from a calendar for December 1970: a tipsy Santa dances on a table surrounded by cheerful men and women. They raise a…
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Homegrown design
In the 1950s, this illuminated advertisement indicated that the premises housed a café. A ‘brown café,’ that is: a typical Dutch…
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Self-made brewer
In the 19th century, the Amsterdam brewery De Hooiberg (Haystack) supplied top-fermented beer, such as the well-known…
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Mystery solved!
All the objects in the Heineken Collection’s Stars series are filled with stories, often so many that only a fraction of them…
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Back in the home port
Delft-born artist Piet Cottaar junior (1908-1984) worked in Rotterdam almost his entire life, and for the same employer at that.…
