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Guided tours

The museum offers guided tours through its permanent and/or temporary exhibitions and through the neighbourhood, providing much additional information and interesting details.

Museum tour
Duration ± 1 hour in Dutch, English or German. Maximum of 15 persons per group. Several groups can be accommodated at the same time (i.e. multiples of 15).
Price € 37.50 per group in addition to the entrance fee.
By appointment only, phone +31 (0)20 620 25 35.

Special water route available
Amsterdam and water have for centuries been inextricably entwined. During the Second World War the Dutch Resistance also used water to its advantage. In the Amsterdam Resistance museum a special water route is available during this theme year Amsterdam Water Sensations 2010. This special route, for free, through the permanent collection of the museum enables you to see the role played by water in The Netherlands from 1940-1945.

Historic neighbourhood
Duration ± 1 hour in Dutch, English, German. Maximum of 15 persons per group. Several groups can be accommodated at the same time (i.e. multiples of 15).
Price € 10.00 per person including admission to the museum; minimum group cost € 100,-.
By appointment only, phone +31 (0)20 620 25 35.

See also: plantage area.

Memorial to the artists’ resistance movement.
Artis Zoo. Artis remained open to the public throughout the war. The attics of the service buildings served as hiding places for between 150 and 300 people. Artis was never raided.
The Wertheimpark is home to the memorial ’NOOIT MEER AUSCHWITZ' (Never again Auschwitz).

This beautiful city park is home to the memorial ’NOOIT MEER AUSCHWITZ' (Never again Auschwitz).
 
On Mr. Visserplein, adjacent to the Portuguese Jewish Synagogue and across from Waterlooplein, you can see the well-known statue commemorating the 1941 February strike, de Dokwerker (the dock worker).
The former Portugees Israelitisch Ziekenhuis (‘Portuguese Jewish Hospital’). In 1943, Jewish men from mixed marriages were sterilised. Sterilised Jews were not deported. The image of a pelican with three young: the symbol of the Portuguese Jewish congregation.

Memorial to the artists’ resistance movement.
 
The Hollandsche Schouwburg was renamed the Joodsche Schouwburg (‘Jewish Theatre’). It became a transit house used to gather Jews for deportation. The Hollandsche Schouwburg is now a war memorial.
In March 1943, the Amsterdam population registry, was destroyed in an attack. It was a spectacular act of resistance that caused a major stir. Nowadays Studio Plantage.

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