Moco Museum Amsterdam

In a villa on Museumplein, between the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Moco is Amsterdam's museum for street art and the artists it shaped. Short for Modern Contemporary, it treats street art as a living movement rather than decoration: graffiti, stencils and urban work that respond to power, inequality and identity.

The anchor is Laugh Now, a permanent Banksy exhibition. His works use humour and confrontation to question authority, capitalism and control, from political satire to some of his best-known images, shown here in an unauthorised collection.

Around it, Moco traces where street language went next. Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, who carried it from New York's walls into the global art world, hang in the Modern Masters rooms. The Contemporary Masters continue the story with Icy & Sot and Stik, whose work deals with borders, belonging and human connection, and temporary street-focused presentations such as Frankey's keep the programme current. Warhol, Kusama and the digital art rooms complete the visit.

A visit takes about an hour. Bring headphones for the free audio tour. Getting there: tram 2 or 5 from Centraal Station to Van Baerlestraat, or metro 52 to Vijzelgracht.