Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

In a historical building along the river Maas you find Wereldmuseum Rotterdam. Here you discover exhibitions about the many people, histories, and cultures that shape and create the world.

A museum about people

Wereldmuseum has three locations in the Netherlands. In Rotterdam you find the museum in a historical building at the Willemskade. Here you discover exhibitions about the many people, histories, and cultures that shape and create the world. Theme's like migration, mobility, craftsmanship, materiality and globalization are questioned in the changing exhibitions.

One museum with three locations

At the locations of the Wereldmuseum, you will learn more about how people live worldwide and how people are shaped by the world. Past and present. Because with more knowledge of the relationship between past and present, you can better understand the world of today. The Wereldmuseum encourages thinking about what it means to be human. What is our connection with the world around us? How do we relate to each other?