What does Jewish life look like?
In the middle of Amsterdam's Jewish quarter you will find the Jewish Cultural Quarter with the Jewish Historical Museum, the Children's Museum, the Portuguese Synagogue, the Hollandsche Schouwburg and the National Holocaust Museum. Here you learn all about Jewish culture.
Jewish Historical Museum
Four monumental synagogues in the heart of the Jewish Cultural Quarter together form the Jewish Historical Museum. Stories about Dutch Jews of yesterday and today live on here through paintings, films, utensils and 3D presentations.
Children's museum
The Children's Museum takes you to the life of a Jewish family. The museum is furnished as a real Jewish home. Bake sandwiches in the kosher kitchen, learn Hebrew in the study room or make music in the music room.
Portuguese Synagogue
Visit the Portuguese Synagogue and imagine yourself in the time of the Amsterdam Golden Age. The seventeenth-century unique interior is still completely intact and is lit by hundreds of candles at concerts and special events. Under the outbuildings you will find the treasure rooms, full of silver, gold, brocade and silk.
Dutch Theatre
In this former theatre Jews were brought together by the occupiers during the Second World War and then deported to concentration and extermination camps. Today this theatre is a monument with a wall of names in memory of the Jewish victims and an exhibition about the persecution.
National Holocaust Museum
Through this building hundreds of children were smuggled by the resistance to safe places. Now the story of the Holocaust is told at this historic site with exhibitions and events.
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