Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Ethnographic museum in a landmark 1926 building, exploring world cultures and the Netherlands' colonial past.
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This guide to Wereldmuseum Amsterdam follows the day the city fell to German forces in May 1940, when occupiers turned this colonial-era palace into a headquarters for the Grüne Polizei, unaware that Dutch resistance fighters were operating from the same building. In the Temple Room, a hall reconstructing an Indonesian shrine, they hid a radio transmitter inside one of the plaster temple moulds.
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