National Maritime Museum
World-class maritime museum in a seventeenth-century arsenal, with a full-scale VOC ship replica moored outside.
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This guide to the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam starts at the jetty, beside a full-size ship whose original never got far. It goes back to January 1749, when the brand-new Dutch East India Company ship Amsterdam left Texel on her maiden voyage for Batavia with a crew of 335 and a cargo of silver, under a 33-year-old captain. You'll also hear about the volunteers who built the replica in the 1980s. Best heard standing on the quay beside the ship, before you go aboard.
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