Open air museum to get Turkish lodgings

The open air museum in Arnhem, which has a collection of historic buildings, has been given lottery money to rebuild a 1970s Turkish immigrant’s lodging house.

The building used be on the Westerstraat in Amsterdam’s Jordaan district.
‘This museum shows our collective culture,’ said a museum spokesman in the Volkskrant. ‘And that definately includes Turkish immigrants.’
Thousands of Turkish gastarbeiders spent years living in near slum conditions when they came to the Netherlands in the early 1970s to do menial work. Often they slept in shifts.
The pension will be part of a €2m complex including a typical Jordaan cafe and a post office – both of which have almost disappeared from the street scene. The new exhibit is due for completion in 2012.