The other week, I dropped my bike keys into the canal. While it sucked, Below The Surface – a project that catalogues objects dug up from Amsterdam’s riverbeds – has given me hope that maybe one day my lost keys will be memorialized in the way they deserve. The project began in 2003 with the construction of Amsterdam’s North/South metro line, a 9.7km connection between the two parts of the city separated by a body of water called the IJ. This huge undertaking required workers to drain part of the Amstel River, the central axis of old Amsterdam. And, as…
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