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The building
The Groote Museum first opened in 1855 for members of the zoological society Natura Artis Magistra. Once the pinnacle of modernity in Amsterdam, today the building occupies the oldest part of ARTIS. The museum, which closed in 1947, has now been fully renovated and restored. The original split staircase has been brought back to its former glory and every glass door of the displays remounted in its old position. Even the wooden floors are the same as those on which Society members walked in 1855. Inside, the building is a veritable time capsule.