The Anne Frank House, opened as a museum in 1960, is in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
The museum occupies the canal house at Prinsengracht 263, where Anne Frank, her family, and four other Jewish people hid from Nazi persecution during the Second World War. Anne wrote much of her famous diary while living in the concealed rooms behind the building’s bookcase.
Otto Frank, Anne’s father and the only member of the hiding group to survive the war, helped establish the museum. The building preserves the Secret Annex and presents exhibitions about Anne’s life, the Holocaust, antisemitism, and discrimination.
A common mix-up is confusing the Anne Frank House with the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin, which is a separate institution. Amsterdam is also associated with other major museums, including the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, but the Anne Frank House is specifically at Prinsengracht.