The Resistance Museum Junior

Children's Museum About the Second World War

In the Netherlands' first children's museum about the history of the Second World War, four eyewitnesses take centre stage: Eva, Jan, Nelly and Henk. These protagonists were between 9 and 14 years old at the time of the war, just like the museum's intended demographic.

The four protagonists are the central storytellers of the museum's main themes. Resistance, collaboration, persecution and adapting to a new daily life. What did their life look like during the occupation? What did they go through? What where the choices, problems, and dilemmas they faced because of persecution, starvation and absence of freedom?

After entering, visitors will be put into a time machine to the start of the war. They will exit on a square in an occupied version of The Netherlands. From there, they can discover the lives of Eva, Jan, Nelly and Henk by visiting four different houses. Eva was Jewish, Jan's parents were in the resistance, Nelly was part of a Dutch nazi youth storm, and Henk was from a family who adapted to the country's new conditions.

In a corner, there's a crashed plain. Visitors can use it to fly across the globe. They can land with kids in the former Dutch colonies, and hear their stories. It will also be an opportunity to discover childrens' stories from all over the planet. The liberation will be the final stage of the exhibition, after which the four protagonists will tell about their life after the war. In an interactive interview, they discuss what the war can mean for today's children.