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Museum of the Canals

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Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Museum of the Canals
Phone:
+31 20 421 1656

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The Anne Frank House is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands. During World War II, Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house, known as the Secret Annex . Anne Frank did not survive the war but in 1947, her wartime diary was published. In 1957, the Anne Frank Foundation was established to protect the property from developers who wanted to demolish the block. The museum opened on 3 May 1960. It preserves the hiding place, has a permanent exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination. In 2013 and 2014, the museum had 1.2 million visitors and was the 3rd most visited museum in the Netherlands, after the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum.
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