The Anne Frank Museum is located on the Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam.
It is a biographical museum based on the life of Anne Frank, a little girl of Jewish descent, who became famous after her death from her diary, which was saved under the title “The Diary of Anne Frank”. During the German occupation and the Nazi persecution of the Jewish inhabitants of the Netherlands, she hid with her family and other Jewish people in a secret area of her home for about two years and a month, until their discovery by the Nazis and their deportation to the Nazi concentration camps.
In the museum, apart from the biographical exhibition on the life of the Anne Frank family and the war period she lived in, there is an exhibition space dedicated to the forms of persecution and discrimination encountered in society.
The House-Museum
The museum was founded in 1960. The house is located in the center of the Dutch capital, at 267 Prinsengracht Street, in the Jordaan neighborhood. The tour starts from the ground floor with its warehouse, where Otto Frank – Anna’s father – made pectin for jam and spices. The offices are located on the first floor. At the entrance of the second floor there is a mobile library with which they hid the entrance of the shelter. “No one could ever have suspected that there could be so many hidden rooms behind,” the little girl wrote in the diary. At the end of your tour you can sit in the cafe overlooking the river. This cafe serves also Amsterdam’s famous apple pie as well as light meals.
