Make your own cool beads from Uganda!
In the Tropenmuseum during the weekend children from 4 years and older can make their own African bracelet or necklace with selfmade beads. Nice and colorful, made of rolled-up strips cut from magazines, folders and newspapers.
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Tropenmuseum Junior:
MixMax Brasil
MixMax Brasil is the exhibition of Tropenmuseum Junior. Watch the trailer on www.tropenmuseumjunior.nl
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Interview with Claire Bown about new education programme
The Tropenmuseum is the first museum in the Netherlands to develop an educational programme specifically for pupils attending international schools: Stories Around the World. This programme was developed by Claire Bown. Read all about this unique project in an interview with Claire.
Read the interview
Temporary exhibition:
The Past is a Foreign Country
In this exhibition, photographer Anoek Steketee and writer Arnold van Bruggen use photos and interviews to give their commentary on a remarkable phenomenon in Indonesia: plesiran tempo doeloe.
More about this exhibition
Stories around the World
New programme
Stories Around the World is a new participative programme for international primary schools in English.
More about this programme
Indian masterpiece: latest acquisition of the Tropenmuseum
With the support of the BankGiro Loterij the Tropenmuseum is to purchase a unique Indian masterpiece during the opening of TEFAF Maastricht: a bronze statue of the deity Aiyanar. You can view the bronze statue from April in the Tropenmuseum.
More about this Indian masterpiece
Accessibility Tropenmuseum:
renovation of Mauritskade
Until June, the Tropenmuseum will be less accessible due to renovation of the Mauritskade. There are some diversions in traffic and public transport.
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Tours & Groups
Discover different tours
Discover the Highlight tour, Hidden stories of the building tour or Love tour.
More about tours
The World Tree: for families with children aged 4-8 years
Now available in English! Be an explorer in the Tropenmuseum! With The World Tree book, you will be visiting children all around the world and discover their culture.
More info about The World Tree
Furniture from the Netherlands East Indies: new publication
The full colour publication Furniture from the Netherlands East Indies 1600-1900 shows the collection furniture from the Netherlands East Indies from the Tropenmuseum. It important aspects of social and domestic life in the former Netherlands East Indies.
More about furniture from the Netherlands East Indies
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