Anne Frank House
The canal house where Anne Frank hid, preserved with the Secret Annex behind its bookcase door.
The Anne Frank House preserves the canal-side warehouse and office where Otto Frank's business operated and where eight people hid from the German occupiers between July 1942 and August 1944. The Secret Annex at the rear is reached through a doorway concealed behind a hinged bookcase, and its rooms are kept unfurnished at Otto Frank's request. Anne's diary, written during those years and published by her father after the war, is displayed in the museum.
The seventeenth-century building on Prinsengracht was threatened with demolition in the 1950s before a public campaign saved it; the Anne Frank Stichting opened it to visitors in 1960. A modern wing designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects opened in 1999 with an entrance on Westermarkt, and a renovation completed in 2018 rearranged the route so that the story is told through the rooms themselves. Photography is not permitted, and an audio tour is included in nine languages.
Highlights
- The Secret Annex, entered through the revolving bookcase
- Anne Frank's original red-checked diary on display
- Rooms left unfurnished, as Otto Frank wished
- Audio tour included, in nine languages
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