The Evil, All About Evil, was a major exhibition held between 18 December 2004 and 12 September 2005 at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam.
This exhibition lasted almost nine months in the museum's main central light hall. The intention was to show the varied and virtually universal image culture of supernatural and earthly evil with objects from different times and (sub) cultures. The exhibition was divided into three major parts: the origin of evil according to the great and local (tribal) religious traditions; the face of evil in which phenomena and beings as hell, underworld, devils, demons, witches, dragons, wolves, devilish seducers, evil animals, as well as abject political headlines from past and present were discussed and the dealings with evil which included magic protection, magic masters, but also processes such as demonization and empowerment. The exhibition illustrated this all with hundreds of objects: sculptures of monsters, demons and halves, puppets and wagons, stuffed animals, amulets, nails, symbols of so-called counterculture, evil characters from the world of science fiction, posters, film and sound clips. Also childhood doomers were not skipped: witches with curly noses and angry wizards from fairy tales and comics, a demonic duckling and Homer Simpson as a grinning red devil with horns.
The objects came to a large extent from the collection of the Tropenmuseum itself, but some of the museums and collections such as the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, the Rotterdam World Museum, the Allard Pierson Museum and the Theater Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren and the Museum of Religious Art in Uden. The University Library of Leiden and the Strip also lent manuscripts, magazines and pictures. Accompanying publication
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