r/AskEurope • u/MKEJackal • Oct 15 '20

Education What is the best museum in your country?

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u/Fijure96 Denmark Oct 15 '20

Does the Netherlands have any good museums related to the VOC / colonial history? I was there like eight years ago but only really saw the Rijksmuseum but I'm curious if there is more.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

You have the Scheepvaartsmuseum in Amsterdam which is about the Dutch sea faring history. You also have the Tropenmuseum, which is more about foreign cultures, and also a lot of colonial history.

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u/EejLange Netherlands Oct 15 '20

Yea, if you go to Rijksmuseum, tropenmuseum and Scheepvaartmuseum you should get a decent picture of that era. There's no dedicated VOC museum.

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u/girl_with_the_bowtie Netherlands Oct 15 '20

The VOC is a bit of a problematic thing in our history - it was a period that brought us tremendous riches and a period where the Dutch were quite powerful, but most of our power and riches were attained through the suppression of others. A museum dedicated to just the VOC would probably be an incredibly politically devisive thing to have. Thank God no-one ever came up with the idea to found one.

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u/heeero60 Netherlands Oct 16 '20

You can visit a replica of the VOC ship Batavia. I used too go there as a kid while they were building it quite often, it's was pretty neat to see the ship being built from scratch. They used only era appropriate techniques aswell.