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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.
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Wereldmuseum is one of the largest museums in Amsterdam; it accommodates permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions, including contemporary, modern and traditional visual arts and photographic works. The museum is part of the
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The photography collection consists mainly of historical photographs of the former Dutch
Colonies from 1855 to 1940. In the period 2009-2015 the Tropemmuseum released 50,000 photographs under a
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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
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in 1864, and opened the museum to the public in 1871. The museum was founded in order to show Dutch overseas possessions, and the inhabitants of these foreign countries, such as
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in 1945, the scope of the museum changed from just the colonial possessions of the
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