Core task for the museum
Education has always been a core task for the museum. The museum’s founders – who were themselves involved in the resistance movement during World War Two -  were particularly keen to impress on young people the dangers of discrimination and intolerance.

Appealing and positive angle
As the number of school pupils in the Netherlands with a non-western cultural background increases, greater importance is attached to the Resistance Museum’s educational programmes. Resistance provides an appealing and positive angle to show young people point the consequences of discrimination and persecution during World War Two. The museum uses this to get schoolchildren to think about the importance of mutual respect, freedom, democracy, the fragility of same and their own responsibility.    

More than 12.000
The number of schoolchildren visiting the museum in groups is increasingly rapidly. When the museum first opened its doors in the Plancius building in 2000, it welcomed 6000 pupils. Five years later, this number had more than doubled.

From about 10 upwards
The museum receives pupils of all levels and all ages, from about 10 upwards. Another small but important group of visitors is formed by students from teacher training colleges. In addition, the museum each year welcomes a relatively small number of groups of foreign students; in particular from Belgium, Germany and England. More information on group visits, see opening and prices.