The EYE Filmmuseum is a Dutch museum and the country's leading cultural institution dedicated to cinematography, based in Amsterdam . It was born in 2010 and its exhibition venue is located on the north bank of the IJ, in the Overhoeks district in Amsterdam North.
The main objective of the EYE Filmmuseum is the preservation of the cinematographic heritage , both of Dutch films and of foreign films screened in the Netherlands.
The EYE Filmmuseum houses the largest film library in the Netherlands with a collection of 37,000 films, 500,000 photos, 41,500 posters and scripts, collections of private materials belonging to directors and thousands of cinema-related objects. The collection, which ranges from late 19th-century silent cinema to contemporary productions , to which many Dutch and foreign titles are regularly added, is regularly ignored by EYE film programmers and curators of the exhibitions presented at the Museum.