Museum
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Linnaeusstraat 2, 1092 CK Amsterdam
Ethnographic museum in a landmark 1926 building, exploring world cultures and the Netherlands' colonial past.
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.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.