The Press Museum ( nl, Persmuseum) is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

of journalistic heritage in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

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, that became part of the

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, or short, Beeld en Geluid) is the cultural archive and a museum located in Hilversum. The Institute for Sound and Vision collects, looks after, and ...

in 2017.

History

The museum ( nl, Persmuseum, links=no) was established in 1902. In 1989, the collection of the museum was moved to the building of the

International Institute of Social History The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 2,300 archival collections include the papers of major figur ...

in Amsterdam. Since 2001, the museum has its own permanent exhibition space at this location. In 2001, an exhibition space was opened.

Permanent collection

The permanent collection has not changed since it opened in 2001. The museum has been collecting since 1902, and the collection dates back to 1610. The collection is divided into three major categories: magazines, political cartoons, and archives.

Temporary exhibitions

The museum also displays temporary exhibitions. One of their latest was on

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...

soon after the attack there.

References

External links

* (in Dutch) 1902 establishments in the Netherlands Mass media in the Netherlands Museums established in 1902 Museums in Amsterdam History of journalism {{Netherlands-museum-stub