Tropenmuseum

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8 / 10

9 expert reviews

“This immense museum provides an anthropological look at the world’s tropical regions from the distant past to today.”

– Let's Go

Fodor's Fodor's
"A gorgeous, skylighted, tiered interior is rich with wood, marble, and gilt, and not only displays endless pieces of antiquity, art, and musical instruments." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"The Tropenmuseum houses a three-storey collection of colonial artefacts, presented with insight, imagination and a fair amount of multimedia." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"This ethnographic museum is an initiative from the Royal Tropical Institute, which seeks to understand and preserve non-Western cultures." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"This is a handsome and vast building, sitting rather grandly in a slightly out-of-the-way (by the pocket handkerchief standards of Amsterdam, anyway) location." Full review
Afar Magazine Afar Magazine
"The interiors of this museum and its library are really beautiful—a mosaic of polished wood and marble surfaces." Full review
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