Amsterdam Tulip Museum

Amsterdam Tulip Museum (2004) ATM is a privately owned museum in Amsterdam. The museum features exhibits about Tulips. The museum is in a canal house, along the Prinsengracht canal.

History
The museum was established in 2004 in a canal house in the Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam. The museum was started by three Dutch bulbsmen and it is privately owned. One of the museum's founders is a tulip bulb mail-order operation in the United States, Colorblends Bridgeport. One of the other founders is Fluwel, a European bulb supplier. The museum is located across the bridge from the Anne Frank House.

It has 2200 sqft of floor space and the exhibits in the museum trace the history of the tulip from its origins in the Himalayas to its arrival in the court of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566).

The museum features an exhibit which explores the famous Tulip mania of the 1630s. The tumultuous Tulip trade led to one of history’s most infamous market crashes. The museum also features exhibits of Ottoman-style Tulip-themed art and ceramics, bulb industry artifacts and films about tulips. The Tulip Museum shop sells Dutch flower bulbs. The museum has multimedia presentations which are viewable on LCD screens.