Come and enjoy making your own Christmas decorations!
Our volunteers have a lot of inspiring examples ready for you and are happy to help you while making the decoration. We work with leather as a base and provide beautiful materials that you can use to bring your creation into the festive Christmas spirit.
No matter how young or old you are, everyone can join in! Will you stop by? Admission is required when booking a workshop.
January 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
Brandon Chow exposes the soul of sneaker culture with his film What I Talk About When I Talk About Sneakers. Stories from collectors, designers and writers show sneakers as status symbols, cultural icons and craftsmanship.
3 januari 2025 - 31 mei 2025
In Anatomy 2025, Isabel Wolfs explores the hidden layers of athletic shoes. With surgical precision, she disassembles sneakers and reveals their technical, ecological and personal stories.
January 23, 2025 - May 15, 2025
Marko Baković holds a master's degree in shoedesign from the London College of Fashion. After graduation, he founded Baković Studio, an innovative and research-oriented design studio.
April 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
With *(Re)vived & (Re)woven* Judith Sanders explores weaving as a repair technique. She transforms residual materials and discarded footwear into new life, giving repair a renewed meaning.
May 24, 2025 - April 6, 2026
Exhibition on the future of sneakers, sustainability and cultural impact.
July 1, 2025 - Aug. 29, 2025
The Shoe Quarter welcomes Tommy Dawson as its new artist in residence. Tommy is a London-based designer and materials researcher, currently pursuing his master's degree in Material Futures at Central Saint Martins. He previously worked as a footwear designer in New York, where he also immersed himself in shoemaking.
Sept. 23, 2025 - Jan. 29, 2026
From manual design to digital design. Sneaker Evolution shows how technology and creativity come together in the design of the future.
9 januari 2026 - 30 april 2026
Modeontwerper Tevin Blancheville werkt van januari t/m april 2026 als Artist in Residence aan sneakers van afvalmateriaal.
29 januari 2026 - 6 april 2026
Podium Schoenenlab 2025 toont op 29 januari 2026 talent, innovatie en samenwerkingen uit het Schoenenlab.
1 april 2026 - 30 juni 2026
Ontwerper Merel Karhof onderzoekt in het Schoenenlab hoe door wind gebreid materiaal de basis kan vormen voor een schoen.
29 april 2026 - 29 april 2026
Vier de Internationale Dag van de Dans in het Schoenenkwartier. Gratis workshops, optredens en activiteiten voor het hele gezin op 29 april 2026.
October 8, 2024 - April 21, 2025
Eighty years young Fred de la Bretonière turns eighty at the end of this year. For more than fifty years he has been at the forefront of Dutch shoe designers. That, of course, needs to be celebrated.
25 april 2026 - 27 september 2026
MOVE! is een interactieve familietentoonstelling over dansschoenen, vrijheid en identiteit.
Permanent exhibition
Here you will learn about the manufacturing process of leather and shoes through historical machines and contemporary interactives.
Permanent exhibition
Five main characters take you through life in an area traditionally known for the manufacture of leather and shoes.
Permanent exhibition
Thousands of years of shoe history is discussed in which the relationship between man and his footwear is explained through place, time, rituals, function and identity.
12 december 2025 - n.t.b.
Een presentatie over de ontwikkeling van orthopedische schoenen, van traditioneel ambacht tot datagedreven ontwerp.
June 7, 2022 - Feb. 4, 2023
An exploration into the relationship between pop music and shoe fashion. Striking, bizarre, iconic and trendsetting footwear from a wide variety of artists.
January 9, 2023 - April 8, 2023
The Nieuwe Lichting exhibition showcases a diverse selection of designers who graduated in 2022 from various art academies and vocational schools in the Netherlands and London.
April 7, 2023 - April 30, 2023
Shoe designers Naomi Hille and Anousjka Röben created a unique collection of shoes with leather that Ilfa Siebenhaar dyed using bacteria.
April 8, 2023 - April 30, 2023
Baked soles & mixed materials. From April 8 to 30, designer Julien Chaintreau will be on display at the Bodehuisje with his project "Neo-Vernacular Footwear.
May 2, 2023 - Sept. 17, 2023
The exhibition CUTTING EDGES in the award-winning Shoe Quarter building, explores and pushes the boundaries of contemporary design.
May 25, 2023 - June 25, 2023
the Shoe Quarter is hosting several live workshops during the Cutting Edges exhibition. Roderick Pieters, Lisa van der Plaetse and Gabriel Giordano will be guests each week and demonstrate their skills.
June 6, 2023 - July 30, 2023
The Shoe Quarter is celebrating its first anniversary by highlighting some special, recent donations.
June 25, 2023 - July 10, 2023
A dress made of seaweed. A creation made of orange peel. In the world of fashion artist Agnes van Dijk (1962, Geldrop) nothing is impossible.
September 5, 2023 - December 31, 2023
No one can ignore her at the moment: Barbie. Trending topic this summer was Barbenheimer, a double blockbuster that flooded all the cinemas
Oct. 1, 2023 - Jan. 1, 2024
Kristiyan Hristov is an emerging designer in the field of 3D printed shoes. He is working on a project exploring the use of biomimicry.
October 31, 2023 - April 1, 2024
The Old Norman term cuir bouilli, literally translatable as boiled leather, remains a mystery.
January 1, 2024 - April 1, 2024
The Spotlight Cabinet in the Shoe Quarter is the domain of La Mer Orthopedic Shoes for the next three months.
January 10, 2024 - April 1, 2024
Clemens Tomlow's "monster under the bed" is part of PODIUM SHOENENLAB EDITION 2023 along with projects by Studio Joris de Groot, Kristiyan Hristov and DAE Studio Body building.
January 21, 2024 - April 1, 2024
Studio Joris de Groot is a product design and research studio exploring the tension between craft and industry.
April 1, 2024 - September 1, 2024
Maxim Verheul is a Dutch shoe designer who draws his inspiration from Dutch cultural heritage, in this case "the wooden shoe. His research at Schoenenkwartier focuses on the Dutch wooden shoe and the craft of making wooden shoes by hand
April 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Meet Gerla: a 120-year-old family business. Founded in 1904 as a tannery by Mr. Laureijssen. Then, in cooperation with his sons, developed into a unique shoe-clog manufacturer.
April 20, 2024 - September 15, 2024
As a tough guy always wanted to try out pumps? Or wanted to look a lot taller thanks to funky platform soles from the seventies? This is possible from April 20 in the Schoenenkwartier in Waalwijk.
June 28, 2024 - September 1, 2024
Laurindo is a fashion designer, historian and owner of the socially social and avant-garde label LAURINDO LOVE. Laurindo: "I see the outfits I present in the Shoe Quarter as resilient manifestations. This is how I try to achieve respect and empathy for other cultures and their dressing behaviors. With a clear link to the slavery past."
July 15, 2024 - Sept. 30, 2024
The history of the museum goes back to 1954. In that year, the "Ancient Museum for the Shoe and Leather Industry" was founded as a result of the successful exhibition SLEM (shoes, leather and fashion). Here, avid collector and teacher of shoemaking, Antoon Hendriks showed a part of his personal collection which garnered the support of local shoe manufacturers in founding a museum.
Sept. 17, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024
Michel Gallus is a shoe designer who enjoys challenging the shoe industry by designing modular shoes. An undergraduate student at the Design Academy Eindhoven, he graduated in 2020 with his project HIDE - Sneakers made entirely of leather. His current work uses both digital and hands-on techniques to design and make shoes.
Oct. 5, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024
Neskrid celebrates 100 years and presents itself in the Shoe Quarter's Spotlight Cabinet. In 100 years, the Brabant family business Neskrid has grown from an artisanal shoemaker to the specialist in the field of multifunctional (semi-)orthopedic footwear solutions.
Oct. 19, 2024 - Oct. 27, 2024
The Schoenenkwartier will again participate in this year's Dutch Design Week from Oct. 19 to 27 with an exhibition at Microlab Hall, Strijp S, Eindhoven.
January 7, 2025 - April 1, 2025
The Take Care Cafe is about caring for yourself, others and your belongings, with a focus on taking care of your shoes. In a time of disposable culture, we remember the value of the relationship with the things we are happy with. Caring and walking with care remains essential. Featured in the Spotlight Closet.
January 23, 2025 - April 1, 2025
Shoe designers of the future once again present themselves during the Podium 2024 exhibition. This annual exhibition showcases work realized in 2024 in collaboration with the museum's Shoe Lab.
April 15, 2025 - September 30, 2025
In our spotlight case, we show you how powerful the meaning of identity can be. This presentation is dedicated to 80 years of freedom in the Langstraat.
3 september 2025 - 30 oktober 2025
Jong talent in de spotlight: studenten van de Dutch Health Tec Academy tonen in het Schoenenkwartier hun innovatieve schoenontwerpen.
31 oktober 2025 - 4 januari 2026
Werk van studenten Creatief Vakman van SintLucas Boxtel, waarin leer, ambacht en innovatie samenkomen.
8 januari 2026 - 31 maart 2026
Een selectie schoenen van Panara, het Nederlandse label van de familie Van Paridon, te zien in de spotlightkast van het Schoenenkwartier.
5 mei 2026 - n.t.b.
Rotterdams kunstenaar Tomás Florian van de Laak onderzoekt in de spotlightkast van het Schoenenkwartier de grens tussen kunst en gebruiksvoorwerp.
