Amsterdam Historisch Museum

Amsterdam Historisch Museum is located in the old Civil Orphanage between Kalverstaart and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.

This historical museum was established in 1975 and it boasts a wide collection of historical data.

A visit to Amsterdam Historisch Museum, will surprise you with an exclusive collection of historical elements from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary times.

There are so many things to learn and enjoy – paintings, models, archeological findings, photographs and several less probable items like playable carillon, a “white car” and a real Jordan Café.

The Museum’s Collection
The Historisch Museum tells the tale of the city and it has so wonderfully infused a charisma and charm to lifeless details of population growth and urban development.

The museum gives you details of the sites to see in Amsterdam. As you move from one gallery to the other, you come to learn about how a small fishing village, which was discovered around 1200, has spectacularly turned into a prime sea power and a notable trading center.

The Historisch Museum in Amsterdam emphasizes the eminence and glory of the seventeenth century Golden Age. It best describes the time when Amsterdam was the most affluent city of the world. What made Amsterdam so rich – you also come to know about that.

The museum also displays lots of hands-on-exhibits along with some neat video displays. The museum has a beautiful and informative scale model of 1677, which illustrates a then new Stadhuis or Town Hall on the Dam. This is now known to all as the Royal Palace.

Among all the interesting things to see in the museum, you will find four fine-looking late fifteenth century altar cushions which represent the Miracle of the Host in 1345.

A small room of the museum has also been dedicated to the life story of the local hero Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk. He was a brave Dutch naval officer who fought gallantly against Belgium in 1830.

You can even have a look at the Café 't Mandje of Amsterdam Historisch Museum. It is a typical, tiny Amsterdam neighborhood bar.

You can sit here, contemplate, praise and enjoy but cannot unfortunately order a glass of beer. For that you have to visit the museum's David & Goliath cafe-restaurant famous for serving palatable Dutch standards like broodjes, uitsmijters, and solid meat-and-potatoes hot meals.

When you take your exit from the Amsterdam Historisch Museum, you can easily wind your way through the Schuttersgalerij or Civics Guards Gallery. It is a splendid narrow two storey nicely covered passageway which helps you to land up to Begijnhof.

The Begijnhof is brilliantly adorned with 15 mammoth 17th century paintings of the Amsterdam Civic Guards.

Thus, your visit to the Amsterdam Historisch Museum helps you to have a glimpse of the historical magnificence of the city trough paintings, personal testimony, artifacts and archeological finds.

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