Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Frederick van Eeden, father of the writer Frederik van Eeden, and secretary of the Maatschappij ter bevordering van Nijverheid () established the Koloniaal Museum () in Haarlem in 1864, File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Opening van het Koloniaal Instituut 10020669.jpg|The opening of the Colonial Institute by Queen Wilhelmina, 1926. File:2010-01 Tropenmuseum.JPG|Interior of the museum. File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Schildering voorstellende de moord op kapitein Tack in Kartasura TMnr H-796.jpg|Traditional Javanese illustration of Captain Tack's death during the Trunajaya Rebellion, kept at the Tropenmuseum. Facility The original building, officially opened in 1926, was designed by Johannes Jacobus van Nieukerken and Marie Adrianus van Nieukerken. It was richly decorated for the time, and took 11 years to build due to World War I and various labor strikes. All of the artwork in the building was created in the first half of the 20th century. In 2003, the museum was listed as a historical building in Amsterdam. ==Collections==

Until the merger in 2014, the museum collection contained 175,000 objects, 155,000 photographs and 10,000 miscellaneous drawings, paintings, and documents. It inherited 15,000 of these from the Ethnographisch Museum Artis. These objects are split up into many collections. The museum houses collections for many geographical areas such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. They also have several collections in storage that fall outside of their scope. These include collections for China, Japan, Korea, and Europe. The photography collection consists mainly of historical photographs of the former Dutch Colonies from 1855 to 1940. In the period 2009–15 the Tropemmuseum released 50,000 photographs under a Creative Commons licence to the Wikimedia Commons. A theatric collection is housed at the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam as well. The collection houses 5,500 musical instruments as well as various other theatrical objects such as masks and puppets. It also features 21,000 textile artifacts, a majority of which are from Indonesia. Tropenmuseum Junior is a sub-museum. It features interactive exhibits, and draws 30,000 children a year. ==See also==