[5] The façade and exterior walls also features several murals, with the most prominent being a 2016 depiction of Anne Frank by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra.

[7] The space housing the museum is a former welding warehouse later repurposed to contain part of the IJ-hallen,[5] the largest flea market in Europe.

[8] Owner Peter Hoogerwerf reached out to curator David Roos[9] (who would later become Head Curator of the museum)[10] to help decorate the marketplace, bringing inside some of the street art adorning the NDSM.

[5] The collection grew rapidly, and at the end of 2015 the two decided to turn the whole space into a museum.

After a few slowdowns, like a leaking roof deemed unsafe and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum opened on October 9, 2020.