Location: Plantage
Top Things to do in Plantage
The 5 Best Museums in Plantage, North Holland Province
This city, full of colorful homes, canals and bridges, is one of Europe's most picturesque capitals. Must-sees on any visitor's itinerary include the Anne Frank House, the Van Gogh Museum and the world's only floating flower market. Rent a bike and join thousands of locals navigating Amsterdam's labyrinthine streets, or just take in the sights on foot. For an unusual and memorable alternative to hotels, consider staying in a houseboat.
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1. Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,402 reviews
Rein Mulder auteur Fotograaf 1927-2007 liet boek na Amsterdamse jongen in oorlogstijd: zoon Rein Mulder jr gaf memoires bij uitgeverij, en werd pakkend boek Koninklijke brief gehad ligt ook in Verzetsmuseum met boek 2016 kwam boek pas uit. Boek in oorlogstijd literatuurplein op luister CD. Voor de rest Verzetsmuseum geweldig voor scholen, 70 miljoen doden door rassenhaat 1940-1945 dat maag nooit meer gebeuren 1940-1945
Reviewed By OldGuysStillTravel - Greater London, United Kingdom
We arrived rather late in the day with the museum closing within 75 minutes. The staff on entering were fantastic, probably the most genuinely enthusiastic welcome I have ever been greeted with in a museum. We were told that it would be difficult to see all the museum in the time we had before closing. They gave advice as to the bits to skip in order to take in the most important elements of the museum. The excellent audio guide is free making this museum great value with an entrance fee of €11. The museum gives a sobering insight into the Dutch resistance movement and Amsterdam life in general during WWII. Located close to Artis Zoo I would recommend doing both on the same day, leaving 2 hours to do this museum justice. On a final note I really would like to thank all on duty at the museum on the evening Dec 3rd - you were all fantastic.
2. Micropia
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4.5 based on 1,441 reviews
Reviewed By AGSK95 - London, United Kingdom
First of the place itself is beautiful, it’s very specious and everything is laid out very well. At the beginning the staff will explain a bit about the place and you give you stamp card - through out the whole museum there is 30 stamps to find, it’s really fun when you got into it - there was some very interesting facts, and there was actual microscopes that you could look into to look at bacteria, there was stations where you could actually smell certain bacteria through these vents (some smelly stuff) over all is was really good. There was a station with a lot of red ants and you could see them moving things around and you could look at them through magnifying glass, there was also an area where you can look at the people who grow the bacteria for the museum - micropia works with Artis zoo and they give them animal poop to grow bacteria :) recycling at its best haha Another positive is that the lockers in the museum are locked by a code you create when you open it - free of charge which I thought was quite generous
3. Hollandsche Schouwburg
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4.0 based on 142 reviews
Reviewed By johnnywallman - Manchester, United Kingdom
Finding the National Holocaust Monument was a task to end all tasks. A note for fellow travellers: The monument is a structure but it is not in a park or by the side of the road, it is in a building, inside the National Holocaust Museum building itself. I must have looked on every piece of land, in every park before being directed to the museum. The building itself was once the Dutch Theatre built in 1892 in the Amsterdam Plantage district. In 1941 the Nazis changed the name to the Jewish Theatre, the only place Jewish musicians and artists could perform for a Jewish audience. From July 1942 until November 1943 the theatre was the site for the deportation of Jews from Holland to the Death Camps. In 1962 a monument was erected in memory of the victims of the Nazi regime. A wall of remembrance at the entrance is engraved with the names of 6700 of the 104,000 Jews murdered. I think what with the hard time I had finding the place, the dull weather and the dark characteristics of the monument itself situated in the enclosed courtyard, this was the most somber site I had visited in Amsterdam. Upstairs in the museum was a fascinating exhibit 'Voices of the past' where five different eye witnesses returned to the period. Here also the debate on whether to show those awful images of the Nazi regime with a 'guest book' for visitors to offer their opinions. Like myself most agreed that however horrific, they need to be shown, lest we forget.
4. National Holocaust Museum in development
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3.5 based on 138 reviews
Reviewed By G4531RNc
I thought this museum was incredible in how it focused on individual stories rather than on the war/holocaust itself. Normally, the voices and lives off each person gets lost in statistics and in the more general narrative of the tragedies that occurred, so this did huge justice to allowing individual lives to be known and voices heard, and had a very powerful way of showing the true impact on millions of people. Well worth a visit, but bring tissues.
