Dutch Resistance Museum

The Dutch Resistance Museum chronicles the lives of both average and extraordinary citizens during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It begins with an overview of the political and economic climate of one of the few European democracies left on the continent on the eve of war and the surprise of being invaded despite its neutral status. Although the occupation is initially perceived as benign, it soon becomes clear that the nation’s sovereignty is gradually being stripped away and some of the Dutch begin to resist. It is these brave souls to whom the museum is dedicated. View photos, films, war footage and simple household items that illustrate the nation’s struggle to aid the Allies. Resistance took many forms from wearing a simple lapel pin or hiding resistance fighters or Jews from the Nazis to organising strikes to disrupt war operations and devising unparalleled financial schemes to fund the resistance movement. The museum also offers displays on Dutch collaborators, the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the war and its consequences for Dutch colonies abroad.