Academiehuis
Program in the Academiehuis
Check out the program below.
Academiehuis
Art, music and dialogue
Be enriched and amazed by our diverse program of high-quality exhibitions, concerts and lectures. We complement this with programs from partners in the city. Think Fundatie Fusions or Organization Early Music, but also the City Festival or the Bruisweken. A diverse program for young and old on the city's largest covered square: your home.
The Academiehuis is not actively affiliated with any church congregation. However, Michael's celebrations are organized on Sunday afternoons by the Protestant Municipality of Zwolle. Check the website of the Michael celebrations for more information.

Agenda
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Word
During daily opening
There is a special story behind a number of notable individuals buried in the grote kerk . Get carried away by the impressive stories.
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Word
During daily opening
Discover the hidden treasures of the Academiehuis. This is still a central place of meeting, reflection, art and culture. The enormous building shows the wealth and power of the city through the ages and can be read like a history book full of fascinating contradictions. The audio tour takes you in 30 minutes through the stories hidden behind an inconspicuous washbasin, the large choir screen and the enormous pulpit. Ask for the audio tour of The Greatest Museum of the Netherlands at the front desk at Academiehuis.
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Concert
Friday, April 4, 2025
Experience Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Academiehuis Grote Kerk Zwolle. The St. Matthew Passion is considered the favorite composition in the Netherlands during the Passion period and is entrenched with Dutch audiences. The Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands are specialists in performing this composition. The musicians in the orchestra play authentic instruments from Bach's time and they are among the top European baroque orchestras. The singers are praised for their dynamic and expressive sound. Together, these musicians are able to convey symbolism, emotion and comfort to you, the listener, like no other.
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Concert
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Deze zaterdag om 16:00 uur wordt het Leeuwenbergh- en/of Schitgerorgel in Academiehuis Grote Kerk bespeeld. Na het concert is er de mogelijkheid te doneren voor de restauratie van het wereldberoemde Zwolse Schnitgerorgel.
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Classic
Saturday, April 5, 2025
In the 18th century, composers tried to perform their music in as many places as possible. Sometimes local circumstances forced them to modify the original scoring. For example, sometime between 1717 and 1720, Bach added two gamba parts to an older concerto for two violas, cello, double bass and basso continuo because his lord in Köthen played that instrument. In 1721, Bach sent the new version with five other concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg. Today you will hear the original of this sixth Brandenburg Concerto. Of the fourth Brandenburg Concerto, Bach replaced the violin solo with a harpsichord part years later in Leipig in order to shine as a keyboardist himself.
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Concert
Zaterdag 12 april 2025
Deze zaterdag om 16:00 uur wordt het Leeuwenbergh- en/of Schitgerorgel in Academiehuis Grote Kerk bespeeld. Na het concert is er de mogelijkheid te doneren voor de restauratie van het wereldberoemde Zwolse Schnitgerorgel.
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Concert
Sunday, April 13, 2025
It was composed nearly three hundred years ago, but Bach's St. Matthew Passion still manages to deeply move millions of listeners every year in the days before Easter.
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Event
Sunday, April 13, 2025
On Sunday, April 13, 2025, we reflect together on that special night in 1945: the night of Zwolle's liberation. How did the people of Zwolle experience this special night in 1945? Did they feel it coming or did they not dare to believe it yet? Historian and journalist Nynke de Jong will take you back to April 13, 1945 this evening, framed by stories by Jan Terlouw and others, dance and music by MICHA and others. Free at last!
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Concert
Maandag 14 april 2025
Tachtig jaar na de bevrijding van Zwolle brengt het Groot Mannenkoor Zwolle een bijzonder bevrijdingsconcert in het Academiehuis. Onder leiding van dirigent Jeroen Hulshof, begeleid op piano door Nadine Eman en Gratiae Trio (viool, harp, cello), klinkt een muzikaal eerbetoon aan vrijheid.
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Lecture
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
This year former mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb is holding the Thorbeckelezing in Zwolle on the theme of "democratic leadership" in our time. In all the social and political turbulence, much is expected not only from mayors but also from political leaders, not to mention the prime minister.
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Concert
Vrijdag 18 april 2025
Pasen en de Matthäus-Passion van Bach worden vaak in één adem genoemd. Componist Toon Hagen en theoloog Jan-Jaap Stegeman schreven hun eigentijdse, Nederlandstalige vertolking van het verhaal van lijden en opstaan. Op Goede Vrijdag en Eerste Paasdag wordt het uitgevoerd in de Grote Kerk.
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Concert
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Deze zaterdag om 16:00 uur wordt het Leeuwenbergh- en/of Schitgerorgel in Academiehuis Grote Kerk bespeeld. Na het concert is er de mogelijkheid te doneren voor de restauratie van het wereldberoemde Zwolse Schnitgerorgel.
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Concert
Zondag 20 april 2025
Pasen en de Matthäus-Passion van Bach worden vaak in één adem genoemd. Componist Toon Hagen en theoloog Jan-Jaap Stegeman schreven hun eigentijdse, Nederlandstalige vertolking van het verhaal van lijden en opstaan. Op Goede Vrijdag en Eerste Paasdag wordt het uitgevoerd in de Grote Kerk.
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Event
21 april - 2 mei 2025
Het is weer zover! Onze boekenmarkt wordt tijdelijk uitgebreid met een enorme hoeveelheid extra boeken die allemaal op zoek zijn naar een nieuwe eigenaar. Van romans tot thrillers en van kinderboeken tot lokale geschiedenis, er is altijd wel iets dat tot de verbeelding spreekt. Van 21 april t/m 2 mei kun je tijdens openingstijden neuzen op de Boekenmarkt XXL en je thuisbibliotheek eens goed aanvullen.
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Event
Maandag 21 april 2025
Ook dit jaar beleef je tweede paasdag bij Academiehuis Grote Kerk! Je bent van harte welkom om samen met het hele gezin deze mooie dag bij ons door te brengen. Je kunt niet alleen genieten van een speciale Paasbrunch voor groot en klein, maar er is ook van alles te doen. Wat dacht je van levensgrote familiespellen, bloemen knutselen of Michaëls Speurtocht? Bezoek onze XXL boekenmarkt of woon een voorstelling van de Vertellende Piano bij. Iedereen is welkom deze tweede paasdag!
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Lecture
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Climate philosopher and activist Chris Julien discusses the role of activism in systemic change. How can citizens take action and contribute to structural system change?
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Exposition
25 april - 8 juni 2025
De expositie Wankel Evenwicht is een bijzondere verkenning van het maatschappelijke thema: “Hoe kunnen we samen leven” in een tijd van verandering. Deze tentoonstelling is het resultaat van een unieke samenwerking tussen 6 Zwolse kunstenaars, ontwerpers en de gemeenschap, waarin kunst en erfgoed samenkomen om de complexe vraagstukken van onze samenleving aandacht te geven en in beweging te krijgen.
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Word
Friday, April 25, 2025
Every month, the Philosophical Café Zwolle and the Academiehuis organize a philosophical conversation on a theme that concerns us all. It is an open conversation, a dialogue, in which the aim is not to convince each other or to win the discussion, but to listen, to question each other, to wonder, and to go home with more questions than you came with. The premise is that it is worthwhile to engage in conversation and to share and explore together our experiences, ideas and feelings about a topic. This in an open way, to wonder, to be surprised and to move forward in your thinking.
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Word
Friday, April 25, 2025
We would like to invite you to participate in a special afternoon full of poetry, fascinating conversations and readings by various poets and connoisseurs. The Dichterstafel organizes these afternoons four times a year in Academiehuis Grote Kerk, in order to strengthen the relationship between poetry and the city of Zwolle.
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Lecture
Friday, April 25, 2025
After World War II, what happened to Overijsselians suspected of collaboration? The Central Archive of Special Jurisdiction (CABR) will be public as of 2025. This archive contains files of nearly half a million Dutch people who were suspected of collaborating with the German occupation forces. The CABR is located in the National Archives in The Hague. However, Collection Overijssel also holds a small archive of the Special Administration of Justice.
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Concert
Zaterdag 26 april 2025
Deze zaterdag om 16:00 uur wordt het Leeuwenbergh- en/of het Schitgerorgel in Academiehuis Grote Kerk bespeeld. Na het concert is er de mogelijkheid te doneren voor de restauratie van het wereldberoemde Zwolse Schnitgerorgel.
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Event
Zondag 4 mei 2025
In deze persoonlijke muziektheatervoorstelling neemt Ekaterina Levental het publiek mee op de weg die zij met haar familie heeft afgelegd. Een weg die begint in Oekraïne, bij haar Joodse oma. Vanuit Tasjkent, Centraal-Azië, via Israël en diverse Europese landen komt Ekaterina uiteindelijk in Nederland aan.
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Concert
Dinsdag 6 mei 2025
Zingen voor vrede is een van de meest inspirerende en krachtige manieren om mensen te raken, een boodschap uit te dragen en harten te openen. Samen muziek maken verbindt en geeft ons hoop voor een vreedzame toekomst.
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Concert
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Polyphony from the Low Countries: it didn't get any fancier in 1500! Especially composers from French Flanders were sought after by wealthy music lovers as far south as the Alps. Compère, Josquin, Agricola and Ghiselin brought their unique sound to Ferrara, Milan, Naples and Florence. Their grandiose counterpoint meandered into the portfolio of local composers such as Cara, Tromboncino and Pesenti. Dutch mezzo Sophia Faltas pairs French chansons and Middle Dutch superhits with the better Italian lute work.
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Lecture
Friday, May 23, 2025
After the euphoria of the liberation of Zwolle in WW2, it was time to take stock. The city was ailing, there was a typhoid and diphtheria epidemic, an energy shortage and damage that needed to be repaired.
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Classic
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Vivaldi's masterpiece the Four Seasons in Zwolle! The Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands performs Vivaldi's famous Four Seasons with Spanish violin virtuoso Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández as soloist.
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Lecture
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
When in the infamous year 1566 in Flanders the flame of the Iconoclasm caught fire and in a short time a storm of destruction swept through the Low Countries, the name of Hermannus Moded was much mentioned. He would have been one of those who incited the people with his fierce (hage) sermons to the violence in which many churches were damaged and art treasures destroyed. And all in the name of the Reformed faith new at the time, which had come north from Switzerland and France. It will play an important role in the Revolt that breaks out in 1568.
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Concert
Zondag 5 oktober 2025
De meest iconische filmmuziek uitgevoerd door het Illuminated Orchestra, versterkt door een adembenemende lichtshow!