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Fort Zeelandia & Stichting Surinaams Museum

A 17th-century Dutch pentagonal fortress on the Suriname River bank in central Paramaribo, now housing the Stichting Surinaams Museum with colonial-period collections and period rooms.

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  • first-time visitors
  • history interest

Fort Zeelandia is the seventeenth-century Dutch pentagonal fortress on the bank of the Suriname River that the city grew around, and it now houses the Stichting Surinaams Museum. The museum's visitor page gives the entrance address as Abraham Crijnssenweg 1 and the phone as (597) 425871.

Opening is narrow and worth planning around: Tuesday to Friday 09:00 to 14:00 and Sunday 10:00 to 14:00, closed Monday, Saturday and national holidays. The Sunday slot comes with a 10:30 guided tour of the fort's history, limited to roughly 15 to 20 people. In practice that means a fort visit is a morning, not an afternoon.

Two things the museum does not publish: an entrance fee, and any statement about the foundation's library, which its own page says is currently closed. Access to Paramaribo's museums changes often — check before you build a day around one.

You will see the site given as Zeelandiaweg 1 as well as Abraham Crijnssenweg 1. Both refer to the same fort.

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    Creole restaurant at Zeelandiaweg 1 beside Fort Zeelandia, loved for honest Surinamese home cooking in one of the city’s most atmospheric corners.

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Information on this page is sourced from Stichting Surinaams Museum, Wikidata.