Oost-Indisch Huis
In Oost-Indisch Huis, what you’re hearing first is not a modern museum echo but the very idea of Amsterdam’s golden age. This building, completed in 1606, was the first structure purpose-built for the Dutch East India Company, serving as the Amsterdam chamber’s headquarters and auction room. Hendrick de Keyser is the architect most closely associated with its design, and a Tuscan gate with a small tunnel opened into an inner courtyard graced by Amsterdam Renaissance facades. The Oost-Indisch Huis was multifunctional: a warehouse, an administrative center, offices, and even a place where ship crews were recruited. The western wing was added in 1663–64, with further expansions around 1658–1661 that brought the building to border the Oude Hoogstraat. …
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