The National Maritime Museum
Inside this former naval storehouse—*’s Lands Zeemagazijn*, also known as *Admiraliteits Magazijn*—you step into Amsterdam’s seafaring systems of power and profit. The building was designed by Daniël Stalpaert and constructed in 1656, and the museum moved into it in 1973. What you see today is shaped by later change: after a 2007–2011 renovation, the museum reopened on 2 October 2011. The collection follows Dutch maritime reach through VOC-era trade and conflict, bringing together paintings, scale models, weapons, and world maps. Its map holdings include works by Willem Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, while the collection also includes a surviving copy of De Moluccis Insulis, the first edition of Maximilianus Transylvanus’ account of the world-spanning voyage attributed to Ferdinand Magellan. Outside, a moored replica of the Amsterdam—an 18th-century ship that sailed between the Netherlands and the East Indies—was built in 1985–1990. …
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