A few weeks ago we visited with my parents in law the IJsbeelden Festival, the Dutch Ice Sculpture Festival, located in Flevoland. The festival consists of an indoor hall where ice sculptures carved by different international artists are displayed.
The festival opens just for three months in winter (this winter from December 13th, 2025 to Match 8th, 2026). The hall is cooled at -10ºC to keep the sculptures frozen during the festival. Once it’s finished the ice melts down and the water goes back to the lake.
Each year the theme of the festival is different. This winter’s theme is: “Let’s go to the movies: Ice Sculptures from the Silver Screen“. Hence, one of the highlights of the visit was to discover the movie, the scene and characters before reading them, bringing us memories of those cinema classics.
I share some of the pictures we took.
Final comment, if you plan to visit it bring very warm clothes (hats, scarf, (skiing) gloves) as after a few minutes walking in those low temperatures you’ll start to freeze.
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