Collection
ANNUAL REPORT 2024
Our Annual Report 2024 is available online. Click on the image to see what we have been up to in 2024.
Stars
Stars of the collection
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Touching base with beer
It is 1 June 1982. Alfred Henry Heineken , better known as Freddy, raises a toast in the Amsterdam Heineken Brewery on the…
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Church key opener
The long line of beer openers from the Heineken Collection nicely traces how beer packaging has changed over the years. This…
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Handwork
This hand-operated crown-capping machine tells the tale of beer bottling. In the beginning, breweries bottled on a small scale…
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Land swap
Amsterdam, 11 August 1930, a time of crisis. Despite the apparent heat, people on the street are fully clothed. Young boys are…
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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.…
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Air antics
‘At an altitude of 4000 metres – so 100 times higher than the Marathon Tower in our Olympic Stadium – the daring pilot Bramson…
