September 11, 2024
Open Monuments Day CALL
Past in the Central Market Hall
Share your story and archive during the Open Monuments Weekend on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September in the Verhalenpakhuis of the Central Markthal in Amsterdam.
As part of Amsterdam 750 years, stories are being collected for the Verhalenpakhuis from people who have a relationship with the Food Centre Amsterdam, previously known as the Centrale Markthal. As a (wholesale) trader or auctioneer, as a shop owner or restaurateur, as a security guard or administrative employee, or simply as a local resident. Do you have a history with the Central Market Hall? Drop by the hall with your stories, photos, contracts, transcripts or other records and visit the Story Warehouse. There you can tell your story and there is an A3 scanner to scan archive items at high resolution.
About the Storytelling Warehouse
A warehouse has been set aside in a corner of the Central Market Hall to give a place to the stories of the area. The Story Warehouse is an indispensable link for Amsterdammers to (have) their own relationship with the place told. The stories of how the market responded to the changing demands of the city. With the arrival of new Amsterdammers from India, from Suriname, from Turkey, from Morocco, there was a sudden demand for new foods. Garlic, madam Jeanette, coconut, dates, chickpeas, sesame.
The Verhalenpakhuis will launch the storytelling project ‘Sense in the Central Market Hall’ during Open Monuments Weekend 2024, which runs through our senses: smell, taste, touch, sight and sound. With various groups of site users and local residents, we are collecting stories that will come together in an interactive installation in the Story Warehouse in the city’s anniversary year.
About Zin in de Centrale Markthal
The project ‘Zin in de Centrale Markthal’ is a project of the Storytelling Centre Foundation in cooperation with the DW-RS foundation, Boei, Cordaan and various artists, local residents and users of the Central Market Hall, and is being realised with contributions from the Amsterdam Foundation and the Municipality of Amsterdam, among others.