Page 130 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide 2016 - Amsterdam

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Verzetsmuseum
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MAP G4 • Plan tage Kerklaan
61A • Tram 9, 14 • 020 620 2535
• Open 10am–5pm Tue–Fri,
11am–5pm Sat–Mon, public hols
• Closed 27 Apr • Admission charge
• www.verzetsmuseum.org
Following the Dutch Resistance
move ment from the German
invasion in May 1940 to the liberation
in May 1945, this exhibition shows
how the Dutch people courag eously
faced the occupation. Its fascinating
and evocative displays relate private
stories of individual heroism and
place them in their historical context.
Among the memorabilia are forged
Glasshouse, Hortus Botanicus identity papers, old photographs and
underground newspapers.
Hortus Botanicus
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MAP R5 • Plantage Mid­
denlaan 2A • Tram 9, 14 • 020 625
9021 • Open 10am–5pm daily •
Closed 1 Jan, 25 Dec • Admission
charge • www.dehortus.nl
About 4,000 different species of
plants are crammed into this small
botanical garden. Many of the exotic
plants were collected by the VOC in
the 17th and 18th centuries.
Highlights are a 300-year old Cycad
palm, the three-climates glasshouse Koninklijk Theater Carré
and Europe’s first coffee plant,
Koninklijk Theater Carré
smuggled out of Ethiopia in 1706. 7
It also houses a lovely café. MAP F5 • Amstel 115–125
• Tram 7, 9, 10, 14 • 0900 252 5255
• Box office open 10am–8pm daily
THE DUTCH EAST INDIA • Guided tours 11am Sat
COMPANY (VOC) • www.carre.nl
Amsterdam’s wealth in the 17th century This magnificent theatre was built at
was in no small measure due to the break-neck speed in 1887 to house
success of the VOC (see its coat of Oscar Carré’s circus. It has a fine
arms below). Founded in 1602, it had a Neo-Renaissance frontage decor ated
trading monopoly east of the Cape of appropriately with the heads of
Good Hope. Its legendary fleet of “East
Indiamen” (see p61) carried much of clowns and dancers. Today, it hosts
Europe’s spice imports until 1791. theatre and dance shows, musicals,
and even the occasional circus.
NEMO
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MAP F3 • Oosterdok 2 • 020
531 3233 • Open 10am–5:30pm Tue–
Sun • Closed Mon except in school
hols, May–Aug • Admission charge,
free for under 3s • www.e­nemo.nl
This popular science and technology
centre is the Netherlands’ largest.

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