Dutch Resistance Museum

About

The Dutch Resistance Museum (Verzetsmuseum) was founded in 1984 and first opened on 19 November 1985 in a former synagogue building on Lekstraat. On 1 May 1999 it relocated and reopened in the Plancius building on Plantage Kerklaan. The Plancius building was built in 1876 at the initiative of a Jewish choral society and later served as a concert hall, meeting venue, and garage before becoming the museum's home. The museum presents the Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of World War II through original objects, photographs, documents, film and audio recordings, and more than 130 personal stories. An exhibition on the former Dutch colonies was added in 2005, and since 2015 the museum has drawn more than 100,000 visitors annually.