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Femke Halsema opens exhibition The House with the Heads – A Monument to Free Thinking at the Embassy of the Free Mind
On March 20th, the Mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema will open the exhibition The House with the Heads – A Monument to Free Thinking at the Embassy of the Free Mind (EFM), located in the House with the Heads at Keizersgracht 123. At the opening, Halsema will receive the first copy of the publication The House with the Heads – A Monument to Free Thinking. A Big Bang in the Low Countries. With this event, the Embassy of the Free Mind builds a bridge between the history of free thought in Amsterdam and today’s social debate on freedom.
The exhibition lays bare the foundations of Amsterdam’s celebrated tradition of tolerance. Relevant books, documents, and visual materials illustrate how Amsterdam became a place of refuge in the 17th century for people from all over Europe.