Jewish Museum
The Joods Museum—Amsterdam’s Jewish Museum—opened on 24 February 1932, and it remains the Netherlands’ only museum devoted specifically to Jewish history. When it first opened, it was housed at the Waag, the Weighing House, on Nieuwmarkt square. That early promise was violently interrupted: after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, the museum was forced to close and much of its collection was lost. It reopened in 1955, and later moved again in 1987 into a complex of four former synagogues on Jonas Daniël Meijerplein, directly across from the Snoge—or Portuguese—Synagogue. Its present collections are large: about 11,000 art objects, ceremonial items, and historical objects, with only around five percent shown at any one time. In 1989, the museum received the Council of Europe Museum Prize, recognizing both the way the collection is presented and the outward character of the synagogue buildings. …
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