Amsterdam Museum
The Amsterdam Museum—known until 2010 as the *Amsterdam Historical Museum*—opened in 1926 in the Waag, one of the city’s 15th-century gates. It later settled, in 1975, into a former convent that became Amsterdam’s municipal orphanage from 1581 onward. That same building was shaped across centuries: it was extended by Hendrick and his son Pieter de Keyser, then rebuilt by Jacob van Campen in 1634, and the orphanage functioned there until 1960. Inside, the museum traces Amsterdam’s shift from medieval settlement to modern metropolis, using items connected to the city’s own institutions—including original furnishings from the orphanage and artifacts tied to the Rasp house, where prisoners were forced to rasp wood for sawdust. By 2011, its collections numbered 70,000 objects across buildings and storage, with about 25,000 photographed for online access. …
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