Hollandsche Schouwburg: A proposal for a Shoah memorial and museum in Mokum

From 1941 on the Hollandsche Schouwburg became the centre of the systematic plan to annihilate the large jewish population of Amsterdam and its surroundings. Since then the fate of the once popular theatre on the lush Plantage Middenlaan has been bound to the horrific scenes that took place here. In 1962 a memorial and small museum were built in the theatre’s remains. The Joods Historisch Museum now has plans to renew the memorial and transform to museum to a fully-fledged Shoah (holocaust) museum in which the Dutch story of the prosecution of jews is told. I was asked by my tutor, Hielkje Zijlstra, to make a study-design for the transformation, in dialogue with the Joods Historisch Museum.ExplorelabArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen