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Guided tours

The museum offers guided tours through its permanent and/or temporary exhibitions and through the neighbourhood, providing much additional information and interesting details.

School groups
For special arrangements, prices and reservation please contact (+)31 (0)20-6202535 or groepsbezoek@verzetsmuseum.org.

For school groups, we not only offer an English-language guided tour but also an assignment booklet filled with interesting multiple choice questions. Please go to the following links to download:
- School assignment booklet: Life in the occupied Netherlands: adjust, collaborate or resist?
- Answers to the school assignment questions
- Instructions for a self-guided visit

Museum tour
Duration ± 1 hour in Dutch, English or German. Maximum of 12 persons per group. Several groups can be accommodated at the same time (i.e. multiples of 12).
Price € 50,- per group in addition to the entrance fee.
By appointment only, phone +31 (0)20 620 25 35.

Historic neighbourhood
Duration ± 1 hour in Dutch, English, German. Maximum of 12 persons per group. Several groups can be accommodated at the same time (i.e. multiples of 12).
Price € 50,- per group plus € 8,- per person.
By appointment only, phone +31 (0)20 620 25 35.

See also: plantage area.

Memorial to the artists’ resistance movement.
Artis Zoo. Artis remained open to the public throughout the war. The attics of the service buildings served as hiding places for between 150 and 300 people. Artis was never raided.
The Wertheimpark is home to the memorial ’NOOIT MEER AUSCHWITZ' (Never again Auschwitz).

The former Portugees Israelitisch Ziekenhuis (‘Portuguese Jewish Hospital’). In 1943, Jewish men from mixed marriages were sterilised. Sterilised Jews were not deported. The image of a pelican with three young: the symbol of the Portuguese Jewish congregation.
On Mr. Visserplein, adjacent to the Portuguese Jewish Synagogue and across from Waterlooplein, you can see the well-known statue commemorating the 1941 February strike, de Dokwerker (the dock worker).
This beautiful city park is home to the memorial ’NOOIT MEER AUSCHWITZ' (Never again Auschwitz).

The Hollandsche Schouwburg was renamed the Joodsche Schouwburg (‘Jewish Theatre’). It became a transit house used to gather Jews for deportation. The Hollandsche Schouwburg is now a war memorial.
Memorial to the artists’ resistance movement.