Local studio Office Winhov has completed the sensitive restoration of two historic local buildings, converting them into a museum and memorial for the Dutch victims of the Holocaust.
Located on Amsterdam's Plantage Middenlaan, the National Holocaust Museum by Office Winhov was designed to commemorate the Dutch Jews who were persecuted and killed during the war.
Two historic local buildings were converted into a museum and memorial. Photo by Stefan Mu?ller
Its facilities are spread across two existing buildings on opposite sides of a street, including an updated 1950s extension, which are nestled between rows of terraced houses.
The museum features educational facilities as well as restored spaces from the existing buildings. These were already established memorial sites, due to their past uses ? one as a deportation centre and the other as an escape route through which Jewish children were able to flee to safety. The facilities are spread across two existing buildings. Photo by Stefan Mu?ller
"The former theatre Hollandsche Schouwburg was the assembly point from which tens of thousands of Jews were deported to the camps ? and as such is already established as a memorial site since 1962," the studio explained.
"The story of the Hervormde Kweekschool [nursery school], which will be expanded to form the basis of the permanent exhibition of the museum, is less well known," it continued.
"Next door to the Hervormde Kweekschool was a day-care where the ch...