The Amsterdam Light Festival celebrates a new edition in the winter of 2025-2026. Discover how beautiful light installations colour the water and transform Amsterdam into a city of light. With a LOVERS Canal Cruises boat trip you will see the city as you have never seen it before.
See the beautiful artworks of the Amsterdam Light Festival 2025 – 2026
The theme of the Amsterdam Light festival 2025-2026 is Legacy. From 27 November until 18 January, 20 works of light art will stand in and along the Amsterdam canals. The artists from all over the world have each given their own interpretation of the theme, from impressive large scale pieces to small statements.
The theme focuses on what we leave behind as people, what stories we pass on, and how we are or want to be remembered. Legacies can be big or small, from large historical events to small personal stories passed on between generations. The artworks all explore this theme in different ways, with artworks with different shapes and sizes, placed on different locations, from right on the canals to the roof of a house.
Are you curious to know what form these light installations take? Then discover them from the front row with a boat trip along the route of the Amsterdam Light Festival 2025-2026. On our professional boat tours you will learn all about the light installations and the artists on the included audioguide. The audioguide is available in English and Dutch, and contains interesting information about all the works of the festival.
The Light Festival Cruises from LOVERS
LOVERS offers multiple cruises for Amsterdam Light Festival, which follow the entire route and show all of the artworks. Departures are right across from Amsterdam Central Station, and one cruise heads out from Amsterdam's museum square.
- The main Amsterdam Light Festival cruise departs from our large dock across from the station, at the Prins Hendrikkade. With very frequent departures you can hop on whenever is convenient, and the comfortable heated boats are a perfect escape from the winter cold.
- An even fancier option is our Amsterdam Light Festival cruise with drinks included. The warm boats are stacked with cold drinks, an ice cold Heineken, delicious wines and several refreshing soft drinks. This cruise also comes with an audio guide, but you are of course also welcome to just have fun with friends while you admire the artworks in between.
- Our third cruise departs next to restaurant Loetje, straight across from the station entrance. This cruise follows the same route, but is a shorter walk from the station, so maybe handier when it’s cold. The departure is right next to restaurant Loetje, just down the stairs and straight on board.
- If you're on the other side of the city, you can hop on the Light Festival cruise from Rijksmuseum. Just a two minute walk from the museum square you can hop on this extra long tour. The location is a bit further from the festival route, so you get an additional ten minutes of sightseeing in Amsterdam in the city lights.
Book your Amsterdam Light Festival tickets online
It promises to be another dazzling edition, bringing an oasis of light to the dark winter months. Experience it up close with your family and friends or plan a romantic date with your partner. Book your tickets online now and experience the Amsterdam Light Festival.
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