Museumplein

This guide to Museumplein in Amsterdam starts underfoot, with a stretch of cobblestone road that ran through the square from 1953 with no speed limit at all. It traces why that road appeared — the demolition of wartime German bunkers built here from 1943 — and the November 1981 demonstration that brought more than four hundred thousand people to this ground to protest nuclear weapons. It leaves you standing on the lawns where that crowd once gathered.