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Extended: Collectivity

Are you up for something different on Saturdays? EXTENDED, the youth collective of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, is kicking off a new edition on October 25 — and you can join in!

Together with other young people, you’ll get to work directly with artists, dive into their creative worlds, and discover what really goes on behind the scenes of a cultural institution. Each week you’ll explore themes like migration, diaspora, and community (linked to the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes at Marres), while trying out workshops, visiting exhibitions, and building towards your very own project that will be shown during Museumnacht 2026.

Oh, and yes — you’ll also earn some money while doing it. Every Saturday from 12:00 to 14:00, you’ll be part of a group that’s curious, creative, and ready to experiment.

Sound like your thing? Sign up before 20 October 2025 — we’d love to have you on board!

Check the registration form

Kinderdag Festival Celebrate YOU!

_29A9490_final — The Children’s Museum Directors Stanske, Mohammad, Sophie and Emre
Photo: Hannah Lipowsky

SOLD OUT!

The Children’s Day Festival is OSCAM’s annual kids’ celebration, all about creativity and self-expression. This year, three locations are participating: Marres in Maastricht, HipHopHuis in Rotterdam, and OSCAM in Amsterdam.

During the festival, children have the freedom to follow their own creative path. They can take part in a wide range of workshops and activities, such as a hip-hop dance workshop by Oxygen, storytime with books from Centre Céramique, crocheting with Maasstitch, crafts, building forts, comic drawing, a poetry workshop, and of course, tasty snacks and drinks!

The Children’s Day Festival is also co-organized by the Children’s Museum directors, who, together with a youth coach, help design and run parts of the program. This gives children a unique opportunity to get involved in the museum world, take the lead, and have a special experience shaping an art festival.

Date:

Sunday 7 December 2025

Time:

12:00—16:00

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht

Free entrance

Children’s Day is sold out, but you can still join the waiting list. Email reserveringen@marres.org and let us know how many adults and children (including ages) will be attending.

Children’s Day is specially for kids. Parents are welcome, but unfortunately cannot take part in the workshops. Fewer adults = more space and more fun for the kids!

Partners / Thanks:

Partners: OSCAM, Amsterdam and HipHopHuis, Rotterdam

Thanks you to Centre Céramique, Maasstitch, Oxygen Academy of Dance

Marres & OSCAM are looking for Children’s Museum Directors

KINDERMUSEUM DIRECTEUREN - FLYER (Instagram Post (45))-4 — Artwork courtesy of OSCAM and Kalkidan Hoex

Would you like to be a Children’s Museum Director?

Are you between 9 and 14 years old and bursting with creative ideas? Do you want to share your thoughts, take action, and make a difference in the world of art and culture?

For the Kinderdag Festival on December 7, 2025, Marres is looking for Children’s Museum Directors! As a young director, you’ll be an important part of our team. Together with other kids, you’ll take part in an inspiring program full of art, culture, creativity — and responsibility. For five Wednesday afternoons in a row, we’ll meet for an hour or so to prepare the Kinderdag Festival Celebrate YOU! Marres organizes this program together with OSCAM.

What will you do?

Contribute ideas for Marres’ education program
Work with other young directors on new ideas
Help organize the Kinderdag Festival: Celebrate YOU!
Take part in creative and inspiring workshops
Share your voice about what matters to you in art and culture

You can sign up until October 25, 2025.
Questions? Send an email to educatie@marres.org!

Registration form Want to know more about Kinderdag Festival?

Closing presentation Extended

Risoprint Workshop at the Jan van Eyck Academie

Extended invites you to the presentation of their final project on Saturday, June 21st.

Over the past few months, Extended has been working with the theme of dreams, which served as the inspiration for their final project on lullabies. During the final presentation, we invite you to share your own lullabies with us, so we can listen to them together. Maybe, in doing so, we can escape our nightmares.

Date: 21 June 2025
Time: 12—2PM
Location: Marres City Garden, Maastricht

The educational program Extended is a collaborative project by Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academ ie, in which young people work together for four months on a socially engaged art project.

National Outdoor Play Day

workshop bij Marres — Photo: Rob van Hoorn

National Outdoor Play Day at Marres!

On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, the whole country turns into one big playground — and Marres is joining in! Come play outside in our delightful city garden.

Make your own witch’s brew, smell fragrant flowers, taste fresh elderflower, and search for all the colors of the rainbow.

Let your senses be stimulated and your imagination run wild! Be sure to wear old clothes, because getting dirty is not just allowed — it’s a must!

Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: The city garden of Marres in Maastricht
The garden is free to enter

For parents, there’s the option to visit the Vultures & Fireflies exhibition, enjoy reading a book in the garden, or relax at Marres Kitchen.

Partners / Thanks to:

The National Outdoor Play Day is an initiative by Jantje Beton. Jantje Beton is the leading charity that, since 1968, has been working together with children to create more and better play spaces and increase opportunities for play.

Visit from Broeklandcollege

For the third time, Marres welcomed a 3rd-year VMBO-T class from Broeklandcollege in Hoensbroek, as part of a five-lesson program.

Earlier at school, the students listened to The Invisible Collection, learned about the work of artist Alejandro Galván, and started making a personal artwork with symbols about their cultural identity.

At Marres, they took it a step further: they got an interactive tour of the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies, imagined their alter ego with the help of a classmate, and helped create a large group mural.

Extended: Adventures in Slumberland

Extended started with the four-month art project Adventures in Slumberland on 15 March 2025 with a new group of members.

In this new workshop series, Extended takes young people on a creative journey of discovery. They’ll explore the magical, beautiful—and sometimes scary—world of dreams and nightmares. Dreams are more than just weird stories in your head. They let you imagine other worlds, escape the chaos of everyday life, and they can even help you come up with fresh ideas. What if you could use your imagination to actually change something?

In the spring of 2025, Extended dives deep into the world of dreams. These workshops are inspired by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván, whose exhibition Vultures & Fireflies creates a colorful dream world. His art blends stories from his neighborhood with myths, comics, and gaming culture—where fantasy and reality merge.

With the help of artists, a coach, and the facilities of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, you’ll have the chance to create and shape your own dream world.

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