TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
Alongside its permanent collection, Art Zoo Museum presents temporary exhibitions within the museum, created by Darwin, Sinke & Van Tongeren.
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17 April until 30 November 2026
RELICS is a collection of giant fossils, transformed into contemporary artworks.
The collection stands as an artistic ode to remains of a long-lost era and invites reflection, reverence and admiration for the beauty and fragility of nature; an enduring theme in the practice of Darwin, Sinke & van Tongeren.
Baroque, coral, steel and velvet
RELICS pioneers the intersection of Baroque art and prehuman history, set under a magnificent painted ceiling by Dutch master Jacob de Wit within Art Zoo’s monumental 17th century canal house in Amsterdam.
Contrasts between soft velvet, hard fossilized bone, dipped steel coral, and exposed steel frameworks conceptually link the sculptures.
RELICS was created using dinosaur and other fossil remains that are tens of millions of years old. Among other pieces, the collection boasts a reimagined fifteen-meter-long Basilosaurus (45 million years old), a Mosasaurus (70 million years old) and a Triceratops skull (67 million years old).
The remains were discovered and prepared under the direction of renowned paleontology institute ZOIC, supported by Art Zoo Museum’s collection curator and dinosaur expert Iacopo Briano. ZOIC and Briano granted the artists complete artistic freedom.
A new perspective on dinosaur fossils
RELICS is not about revival or scientific reconstruction. RELICS is a matter of beauty
Iacopo Briano
With a general Art Zoo Museum ticket you can visit the exhibition RELICS.