The Kura Hulanda Museum is housed in a restored 18th-century courtyard complex in Otrobanda — the same courtyard that once served as a major slave-holding depot. The museum covers the entire history of the transatlantic slave trade and the African diaspora, from the cultures of West Africa through the Middle Passage to the Caribbean and the Americas.
The collection is serious and well-presented, with artefacts, documents, and reconstructions that avoid sentimentality. The section on the Middle Passage — using scale models of slave ships — is particularly sobering. The museum also covers African civilisations before colonisation, which contextualises the brutality of what followed. Allow two hours.