Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam · Plantage Kerklaan 61
A day ticket for the Dutch Resistance Museum, the Verzetsmuseum, with its audio guide: how people in the occupied Netherlands lived from 1940 to 1945, and the choices they faced. Pick it if the helpers in Anne Frank's story made you wonder who else took that risk, and how.
The Verzetsmuseum tells the story of the Netherlands under German occupation, from May 1940 to May 1945. Its permanent exhibition, The Netherlands in World War II, is built around more than 130 personal stories: people who went along, people who collaborated, and people who resisted. You walk through rooms set up like the streets of the 1940s, with walls of photographs, and follow every form of resistance the listing names: strikes, forged papers, underground newspapers, escape routes, espionage, armed groups and help for people in hiding. That last one is the work Miep Gies and the other helpers did for the eight people in the Secret Annex.
A separate section covers the war in the former colonies: Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation, and Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean. Resistance Museum Junior, which the museum calls the country's first children's museum about the Second World War, tells the war through the lives of real children. Until 7 February 2027 the temporary exhibition is Hella de Jonge, Closer to Their Souls, with paintings that weave personal history into collective memory.
The museum is at Plantage Kerklaan 61, diagonally across from the main entrance of Artis zoo, and opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00 (closed 1 January, 27 April and 25 December), according to verzetsmuseum.org. The audio tour is included in Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Sign Language, with QR codes at each station. Show your ticket at the counter; it is valid for one day. Guests in the reviews spend about 90 minutes, longer if they listen to everything.
Show your ticket at the museum counter at Plantage Kerklaan 61 and pick up the audio guide.
May 1940 to May 1945 through more than 130 personal stories, and the choices people faced.
Rooms set up like the streets of the war years, with objects and documents from ordinary lives.
Strikes, forged papers, underground newspapers, escape routes, espionage and help for people in hiding.
Indonesia under Japanese occupation, Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean, and the road to independence.
Resistance Museum Junior and the current temporary exhibition before you leave.
★★★★★I visited with a 14 yr old interested in history. We liked the way stories were told and how people faced difficult choices. Good exhibits, interesting stories and well done.
★★★★★Very well-organized museum, very convenient audio guides with QR codes to scan at the various stations. When you finish your visit, thanks to the museum, you understand what those years were like. Absolutely worth visiting.
★★★★★This is a fantastic small museum. My son and I read basically everything on display, as well as listening to the excellent audios (provided as part of your entrance fee), and we covered the museum in about 90 minutes. [...]
★★★★★Very impressively done with lots of personal stories and general information. Very immersive and interesting.
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Daily 10:00 to 17:00. It is closed on 1 January, 27 April (King's Day) and 25 December, according to verzetsmuseum.org.
Plan about 90 minutes. Guests who listen to every audio stop and visit the Junior museum stay longer.
Yes, included with the ticket, in Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch Sign Language.
It covers the occupation she lived through and the help given to people in hiding, the work of helpers like Miep Gies. The Secret Annex itself is at the Anne Frank House, booked separately on annefrank.org.
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How the Dutch lived through the occupation and resisted it, with an audio guide.
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