Multatuli Museum Amsterdam
The Multatuli museum and its library are completely devoted to Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887) who wrote under the pseudonym Multatuli ('I have suffered greatly'). His most famous work was the novel Max Havelaar (the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company) which was published in 1860. The book recounts the experiences of Havelaar, an idealistic Dutch colonial official on Java, who rebels against the forced cultivation which the Dutch government imposed on Indonesia's peasants. The museum is housed in the building in which the writer was born.
