Anton de Kom exhibition festively opened in Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam Open Air Museum

Text and image Audry Wajwakana COMMEWIJNE — “It is a Surinamese story about Anton de Kom, so we go a little deeper. People know him as a resistance fighter, but we tell his story from his birth,” says Gerard Alberga, director of the Open Air Museum Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam. While he tells this to the Ware Tijd, a long line forms in front of the building where the new Anton de Kom exhibition is housed. Visitors are curious about the new exhibition, a…