Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam

The Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam tells the story of ordinary people who resisted Nazi occupation during World War II, featuring personal stories, artifacts, and exhibitions on the Dutch East Indies.

Planning your visit

The Verzetsmuseum asks the question that makes resistance history difficult: what would you have done? It structures its exhibition around ordinary Dutch people facing choices under occupation — adapt, collaborate, or resist — and it does not pretend the answer was obvious at the time.

The Netherlands' record is complicated. Resistance networks forged documents, hid people, ran underground newspapers and carried out sabotage; simultaneously, the country's efficient civil administration and high rate of denunciation contributed to the deaths of around three-quarters of its Jewish population, the highest proportion in western Europe.

The museum covers both, alongside the February strike of 1941 — the only mass strike against Jewish deportations anywhere in occupied Europe — and the Hunger Winter.

A separate section covers the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation, and the Junior Resistance Museum tells the war through four children's stories.

Bookable options are entry tickets. Current availability is listed below.