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Netherlands Marine Corps Museum (Dutch - ''Mariniersmuseum'') is a museum on the history of the
Netherlands Marine Corps The Netherlands Marine Corps ( nl, Korps Mariniers) is the elite naval infantry corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The marines trace their origins back to the establishment of the on 10 December 1665, by the then grand pensionary of the Dut ...
. Since December 1995 it has been housed in a building on the Wijnhaven in Rotterdam. Since 2014 it has been one of the four museums managed by the
Koninklijke Stichting Defensiemusea The Stichting Koninklijke Defensiemusea (SKD, previously KSD; ''Royal Foundation for Defence Museums'') is an umbrella organization managing the collections of the four main military museums in the Netherlands - the Nationaal Militair Museum (NMM ...
(KSD).


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