Jewish Museum — Attraction in Amsterdam

I enjoyed visiting this museum much more than I thought I would and wish I'd visited it sooner. I've been avoiding it for over a year because I assumed it would be a Holocaust museum centered on Anne Frank, and Holocaust museums tend to make me feel rather melancholy. This museum focuses less on tragedy, and more on the relationship between the Jewish community and the city of Amsterdam.

The museum is on the smaller side and is divided into three sections:

1. The Jewish faith and its traditions,

2. History of where the Jews came from and how their community was formed in Amsterdam, as well as their early relationship with Dutch natives, and

3. Modern history of what prejudices they've endured while becoming assimilated in the Netherlands, how the Jewish Quarter was affected by WWII, and how the community healed afterwards.

There also appears to be temporary exhibitions as well. When I visited, it was about the Jewish support of...

Excellent museum! I learned so much and honestly could have spent another couple of hours there. My four star rating is based on my overall experience on that day and not on the one glaring shortcoming that I encountered.

The participation of Dutch Jews in the slave trade and colonization was acknowledged (👍) and then quickly brushed past (👎). Having gone to the Rijksmuseum a couple days before, I feel that more could have been said based on some of the interpretation that I saw there. Because there is an audio guide available, it would be pretty feasible (and inexpensive) to create optional additional audio recordings that could explore more deeply the complicated implications of a marginalized and persecuted people playing a role in the subjugation of another people. This museum engages with many complex themes and this discussion would not be...

Was really nice historical exhibit but in the end when I saw this I got really shocked, they put out a grave marker on display !! To show that the poor ppl used wooden graves markers. A grave marker should stay in cemetery even if we don't know the exact original location, he deserves a memorial in the cemetery, this was done all over Europe with all gravestones the natzis have thrown down, they ware replaced somewhere in the cemetery, imagine you walk in and you see your grandfather's gravestone in a museum or yours in a few hundred years just because we don't know who are the grandchildren of this poor Jew we don't need to give him his deserved respect? I don't even understand how the government is allowing this shame hope they will release this memorial to it's...