NEMO Museum in Amsterdam

The NEMO collection shows how energy has shaped and influenced our world. NEMO has a total of approximately 19,500 artefacts in its care that tell the story of humankind and energy in its broadest sense: from the parlograph to the Walkman, from the Humphry Davy lamp to the lamppost, from the antique dynamo to the surge voltage generator.

Most of NEMO’s historical technology collection was transferred in 2008 from the city’s former Energetica Museum, which had received large donations of artefacts from the museum of energy consultancy company KEMA and the former municipal energy company. The collection still contains a small range of items inherited from its predecessor, the Netherlands Institute for Industry and Technology (which started life as the Labour Museum).