- Prinsengracht 267
- 1016 GV Amsterdam
Visit the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her diary during World War II. For more than two years, Anne Frank lived secretively with the other people in hiding in the back part of her father's office building at Prinsengracht #263. The Secret Annex has been preserved in its original state. The front part of the building - the offices where the 'helpers' worked - has been restored to the style and ambiance of the war years. Quotations from the diary, photographs, films and original objects belonging to the people in hiding and those who helped them all serve to illustrate the events which occurred at this location. Anne's orignal diary is on display in the museum along with some of her other notebooks. The museum's interactive 'Free2choose' exhibition explores the present-day boundaries of freedom.