We are trying to plan a few days in Amsterdam. One morning we will go to the Peace Palace and hopefully get a tour. The afternoon we can do Binnenhof or we can work our schedule for the few says to include the walk from Anne Franks Haus to Dutch Resistance museum and tour the museum. So the question would be do we do 1) Binnenhof (we'll already be in The Hague) or 2)Resistance walk from AFH to Dutch Resistance museum and tour musesum. Thanks
Posted by
Seattle, WA, US
1005 posts
You'd better do your research on the Peace Palace now, before you go to the Hague. From what I understand, they only have tours on Saturdays, and you can't book more than about six weeks in advance.
I've been to the Binnenhof and the Dutch Resistance Museum, and I prefer the museum. The Binnenhof tour is usually in Dutch and about the Dutch government. The resistance museum has everything in English and is a fascinating look at WWII in the Netherlands. They even go into great detail about the collaborationists--and there were many.
Posted by
Orinda, California, United States
307 posts
We did the tour with Peter from the Anne Frank Haus to close to the museum. Very informative. Going to the museum would add to what you just learned on the walk. http://www.historywalks.eu
Posted by
OP
43 posts
Thanks for the info! We have scheduled our days in Amsterdam around a potential Saturday morning tour at The Peace Palace so now keeping our fingers crossed that they will have one. From our communication with them it seems they won't open up tours until maybe June.
Posted by
OP
43 posts
Thanks for the info! We have scheduled our days in Amsterdam around a potential Saturday morning tour at The Peace Palace so now keeping our fingers crossed that they will have one. From our communication with them it seems they won't open up tours until maybe June.
Posted by
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
4087 posts
The Dutch Resistance Museum is very un-military. Rather than dealing with strategic aspects of the Occupation, it focuses on how the ordinary citizens survived (or not). The main theme is to ask the provocative question: What would you have done? As a bonus, it includes some material on the occupation of Dutch colonies, particularly Indonesia, which may not be familiar to North Americans.
https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/museum/en/exhibitions/the-netherlands-in-ww2
Posted by
the Netherlands
2487 posts
Anne Franks Haus
I don't want to sound like the worst kind of schoolmaster, but the German »Haus« is in this context painful. In Dutch it's »Anne Frank Huis«.
Having said that, a visit to the Jewish Historical Museum would be in place, if only for the majestic 17th-century so-called Portuguese Synagogue. It's at walking distance form the Resistance Museum.