Innovation Museum Amsterdam is a semi-permanent exhibition that maps a decade of social, spatial and technological innovation within the Municipality of Amsterdam. Curated and co-designed with the city’s Innovation Department, it brings together more than fifty pilot projects, prototypes and artistic interventions developed across municipal teams and programmes, including initiatives in digital urban planning, mobility transitions, public-space experimentation, circular economies and data governance.

Situated at De Garage 027S on the Marineterrein, an urban innovation district functioning as a living lab, the exhibition positions municipal experimentation within broader discourses on city-making and organisational learning. Rather than presenting innovation as a linear story of progress, it foregrounds the infrastructural conditions that shape it, such as interdepartmental collaborations, resident participation, cross-sector partnerships, and, aligned with Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, reflections on historical trajectories that show how today’s norms were once innovative. Conceived as an evolving archive, the exhibition highlights the negotiations around ethics, data, sensing technologies and public legitimacy that accompany municipal innovation, making visible iterative processes typically hidden from public view. De Garage 027S was open to the public for three months, closing with a final edition presented during the maritime festival SAIL 2025, developed in collaboration with the department's In-Residence programme.