The Tropenmuseum is perhaps the most interesting museum I've been lucky enough to visit. It's split up in to world sections and covers a vast array of cultures, epochs, traditions, etc. The layout is innovative and refreshing and they really present the exhibitions in interesting ways; making little mini-villages to feel as if you are walking down a street in... More

You can spend hours in that museum which displays so many different objects from so many different parts ot the globe with the help and assistance of technology. You can view films, hear music. It is just incredible. More

One of "must see" in Amsterdam. The museum shares stories about other cultures and the past of the Netherlands. They have exhibitions with thousands of objects displayed in temporary and permanent exhibitions. If you want to learn about non-western cultures this will be good place to visit More

A really great museum.;;.informative yet fun. You really could spend the whole day there. Don't miss out on this gem. More

The B&W film section is fascinating and I was hooked there for hours watching a selection of movies >50yr old More

Nice for a rainy day to go with kids. Check the temporary exhibitions. More

this is a marvellous anthropological museum, making use of the last word in museology to get over its picture. The top floor has an excellent exhibition on the Yemen, but the high point for me was the brilliant picture of Dutch colonialism on the 2nd floor, with life size models whose lives typified what happened , interspersed with excellent film... More

Loved, loved, loved this museum. For those familiar with Western Australia, it reminded me of Scitech but for social history / ethnography! The displays are well set out and there is a good mix of multimedia and realia. The perspective presented on Dutch colonial history is also quite balanced - although at times it seemed as though the curators were... More

You'll find a lot of fascinating objects from various parts of the world and cultures as well. Tropenmuseum is an ethnographic museum and has a huge collection of artifacts. There are also temporary exhibitions displaying (art) objects, photographs, music and film from non-western cultures. The permanent exhibitions are Southeast Asia, Oceania, Western Asia and North Africa, Africa, Latin America, Man... More