Collection
ANNUAL REPORT 2023
Our Annual Report 2023 is available online. Click on the image to see what we have been up to in 2023.
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Stars of the collection
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Church key opener
The long line of beer openers from the Heineken Collection nicely traces how beer packaging has changed over the years. This…
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A golden moment
It was literally a golden moment for Gerard Heineken when he received this ‘medaille d’or’ at the 1875 international exhibition…
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Art in the clinch
Beer and the visual arts is a somewhat lesser-known combination than beer and sports. Nevertheless, over the years Heineken…
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Back in the home port
Delft-born artist Piet Cottaar junior (1908-1984) worked in Rotterdam almost his entire life, and for the same employer at that.…
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A utopian idea?
With this treatise on the ‘United States of Europe,’ in 1992 Alfred (Freddy) Heineken advocated a new, decentralized Europe. The…
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Dynamic brand design
Heineken introduced its first aluminium bottle – Paco – in 2002. It was created by the French designer Ito Morabito (1977, known…