Open your window on the world
Each of the objects in our collection tells a human story. Stories that embody universal themes such as celebration, mourning, decoration, prayer, love and conflict. Themes that have one thing in common: they show that despite our differences we are all human.
We only have room to display a small amount of these objects. Luckily that doesn’t mean the rest stay hidden; please view our collection site.
The National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) groups together Amsterdam’s Tropenmuseum, the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal and Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden. Since 2017 NMVW has been working closely together with Rotterdam’s Wereldmuseum.Together these collections comprise nearly 450,000 objects, 260,000 photographs and some 350,000 items of documentary film and video material.
