The Black Archives is a unique historal archive

You can visit us for inspiring conversations, substantive activities and books from Black and other perspectives that are often underexposed elsewhere.

Visit our space on Bijlmerplein 140 in Amsterdam! We are open from Wednesday-Saturday 11AM-5PM.​​​​​

The Black Archives Events

The Black Archives organizes monthly activities around themes from the archives with the goal of making knowledge and education from the book collections and archives accessible for discussion.

If you're curious about our upcoming events, please check out the Agenda page. The events mention whether the event will be in Dutch or English!

Nobody Is Free Until Everybody Is Free
Every day, we are confronted with compelling images of human rights violations, genocide, and colonial violence in countries such as Congo, Palestine, and Sudan. These events can be overwhelming and sometimes feel distant from our daily lives. Yet, these issues are interconnected and affect us all. Inspired by the powerful principle "Nobody's Free Until Everybody’s Free," we urge everyone to come together, share experiences, support each other, and thus strengthen our community. In unity, we find the strength needed for social change.

Check out the Nobody is Free Until Everybody is Free newspaper, t-shirt and exhibition!

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Our archive

Our archive comprises of more than 20.000 pieces. We are archiving these step-by-step. Find a part of our book collections under 'Archives' and visit our Digital Archive.

Follow a tour

We offer a tour through our archive, book collections and documents to group. We can add context on different topics on our location in Amsterdam South East.

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