Amsterdam Museum

The Amsterdam Museum, formerly known as the Amsterdams Historisch Museum until 2011, is a museum dedicated to the history of Amsterdam. It has been placed in the old city orphanage between Kalverstraat and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal since 1975. Amsterdam's history museum, housed in a former civic orphanage, tells the city's life throughout the millennium through multimedia exhibitions, religious artifacts, porcelains, and paintings. Displays also show an increase in bicycle use. Its Civic Guard Gallery, which features group pictures of people ranging from medieval guards to Anne Frank and Alfred Heineken, is free.

The museum displays numerous things relating to Amsterdam's history, from the Middle Ages to the present. Many of the orphanage's original furniture are on exhibit, as are antiques from the Rasp house, Amsterdam's old home of discipline where criminals were forced to rasp wood to generate sawdust. As of 2011, the museum was responsible for 70,000 pieces housed in several buildings and storage spaces. Approximately 25,000 of these have been photographed and are available to the public online.

Location: Kalverstraat 92, Amsterdam, North Holland 1012 PJ

Website: amsterdammuseum.nl