The Amsterdam Museum was established in 1926 as the Amsterdam Historical Museum, in the Waag, a 15th-century city gate, and renamed the Amsterdam Museum in 2010. Since 1975 it has occupied a former convent that became Amsterdam's municipal orphanage in 1581 and operated as one until 1960. Hendrick de Keyser and his son Pieter de Keyser extended the building, and Jacob van Campen rebuilt it in 1634. The article names no client, style, materials or dimensions.
During renovation of the main site, the museum is temporarily housed in the Amstelhof, alongside H'ART Museum and a dependence of Museum van de Geest.
The collection held about 70,000 objects as of 2011, with roughly 25,000 photographed and available online. It had 199,322 visitors in 2010. The article gives no access details.
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