Fort Nieuw Amsterdam

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This open-air museum is inside one of the earliest surviving Dutch structures in Suriname, a fortress built at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne Rivers in 1747. Inside you'll find chilling artifacts of the slave trade and a Dutch-engineered system of locks holding back the river.

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