National Holocaust Museum
National Holocaust Museum
Office Winhov
PROJECT TEAM
Uri Gilad, Inez Tan, Leon Kentrop, Rick Bruggink, András Szél, Anna Janssen, Franco Serra, Maria Trombetta
PHOTOGRAPHS
Stefan Müller, Max Hart Nibbrig, Mike Bink
AREA
3500 M²
YEAR
2024
LOCATION
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CATEGORY
Museum
As a singular and emotionally charged location, the National Holocaust Museum presents the history of the persecution of Dutch Jews during World War II.
Opened in 2024, the museum is housed in the former teaching school Hervormde Kweekschool.
It forms a larger whole with the former theatre Hollandsche Schouwburg across the street.
The Hollandsche Schouwburg was the assembly point from which Jews were deported to the camps, and as such was already an established memorial site.
The story of the ‘Reformed Nursery School’ is less well known: it was via here that 600 detained Jewish children were brought to relative safety.
While preserving the buildings’ surviving historical elements, the museum is formulated as a place for both remembrance and to pass on history to future generations.
The goal of the architectural design was to provide the mental space for the personal stories to come to life for the visitors – to give a sense of place: this happened here.
