Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Wereldmuseum in 2024
Location of the museum in Amsterdam
Former name	Tropenmuseum Koloniaal Museum (Colonial Museum)
Established	1864 (1864)
Location	Linnaeusstraat 2, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates	52°21′46″N 4°55′21″E / 52.362692°N 4.922517°E / 52.362692; 4.922517
Type	Anthropological museum
Collection size	340,000 objects and photographs
Visitors	317.572 visitors (2022)
Founder	Frederick van Eeden
Director	Wayne Modest & Marieke van Bommel
Public transit access	Alexanderplein GVB tram lines 9, 10, 14
Website	[1]

The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (previously known as Tropenmuseum (English: Museum of the Tropics) between 1950 and 2023) is an ethnographic museum with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was originally founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1864 under the name Koloniaal Museum (English: Colonial Museum) and later renamed Tropenmuseum (English: Museum of the Tropics).^[1]

The Wereldmuseum is one of the largest museums in Amsterdam. It has a permanent exhibition of part of its collection and hosts temporary exhibitions, including contemporary, modern and traditional visual arts and photographic works. The museum is part of the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Museum of World Cultures), a combination of three ethnographic museums in the Netherlands.^[1]