Zwolle's largest national monument
A late medieval town church with furnishings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and late medieval wall and vault paintings. The church contains two exceptional interior pieces: the imposing pulpit and the grandiose Schnitger organ.
A place to learn and innovate. To listen and watch. To discover, wonder and enrich yourself. The Academiehuis provides a place for innovation and internalization. For young and old.
The Academiehuis connects, enriches and amazes...
Look and see. Hear and listen. Feel and experience. The Academiehuis connects, enriches and amazes. Brings together word, art, music and people. As it has done for more than six hundred years, here under the vaults and baroque organ of our monumental museum church.
Placefor meeting and inspiration, dialogue and silence. Stage for storytellers and listeners, thinkers and doers. Plato's Akademeia in the Athens of the past is the Academiehuis in the Zwolle of today.
OPEN AND FREE.
SURPRISINGLY ENRICHING.
FOR YOUNG AND OLD.
The Academiehuis has and gives space for history and present, initiative and innovation. For education and meaning, event and experiment. For a find in the book market, a cup of coffee and a moment to catch your breath. Everything in the heart of Zwolle.
Here, on the largest covered square in the city, culture is an adventure. Of and for everyone.
From Church to Academiehuis
A house where visitors exchange stories, listen to music and art has a place. In this house, opinions are shared and honed and debate and dialogue take place. Music sounds and exhibits inspire. Celebrations take place and a candle can be lit here every day.
The Grote of St. Michaëlskerk has become Academiehuis and picks up the thread of a religious history; it constantly renews itself.
As Zwolle's largest covered square, the building is accessible to everyone; to residents of the city and visitors from the region and beyond. The house mirrors the Academia as founded by Plato, 380 years before Christ, in Athens as a meeting place for the free citizen, where dialogues took place around current themes and science was practiced. Plato based this on three pillars: the word, art and music. Exactly these three themes are the basis for the Academiehuis 's vision of identity and are reflected in its organizational structure.