Anne Frank The Exhibition

About This Event

The real Anne Frank House in Amsterdam keeps the actual Secret Annex empty — Otto Frank, Anne's father and the only member of the household to survive the war, specifically asked that the rooms stay bare. This traveling exhibition does the opposite on purpose: a full-scale, fully furnished reconstruction built from Otto's own recollection of exactly how each room looked, so visitors walk through the space itself rather than view it behind glass.

It travels with more than 130 original items from the Anne Frank House's own collection — the first time the Amsterdam museum has ever let its artifacts leave Europe for the U.S. The exhibition opened at Griffin MSI in May 2026 after a year-long run in New York, its only other American stop so far.

The exhibition covers Anne's full story, not just the hiding: her early childhood in Frankfurt, her family's move to Amsterdam ahead of the Nazi rise, the two years in the Annex, the family's betrayal and arrest, and her deportation first to Westerbork and then Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she died at Bergen-Belsen in 1945 at age fifteen. Note the card's practical detail: free entry ended in September 2026, so budget for the separate exhibition ticket on top of regular museum admission.