The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam is an ethnographic museum located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1864.
The Tropenmuseum in 2016
The opening of the Colonial Institute by Queen Wilhelmina, 1926.
Interior of the museum.
Traditional Javanese illustration of Captain Tack's death during the Trunajaya Rebellion, kept at the Tropenmuseum.
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
The Dutch: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (NMVW) is an overarching museum organisation for the management of several ethnographic museums in the Netherlands, founded in 2014. It consists of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, and the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden. The National Museum of World Cultures works in close cooperation with the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. It is also part of nation-wide Dutch organisations for research into provenance studies and projects of restitution of cultural heritage to countries of origin, like the former Dutch colony in today's Indonesia.
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands