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Amsterdam’s Art Zoo Opens With 12-Foot Crocodile

By Drooid · Oct 30, 2026 · How we work

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Jaap Sinke and Ferry van Tongeren opened the Art Zoo museum in Amsterdam.
A 12-foot preserved crocodile hangs above the museum’s entrance.
Hundreds of taxidermied animals, bones, illuminated tulips and odd fish fill the 17th-century canal house.
Sinke says all specimens came from zoos where they died naturally, mostly in Europe.
The artists cite 16th-17th-century wunderkammers and Charles Darwin as a third collaborator.

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Jaap Sinke and Ferry van Tongeren opened the Art Zoo museum in Amsterdam.
A 12-foot preserved crocodile hangs above the museum’s entrance.
Hundreds of taxidermied animals, bones, illuminated tulips and odd fish fill the 17th-century canal house.
Sinke says all specimens came from zoos where they died naturally, mostly in Europe.
The artists cite 16th-17th-century wunderkammers and Charles Darwin as a third collaborator.