Danas, u prisutnosti njenog veličanstva nizozemske kraljice Beatrix ,"Kuća Ane Frank" slavi 5o-godišnjicu od kako je postala muzej. Specijalna ceremonija je održana u Westerkerk katedrali u Amsterdamu. Prije ceremonije je kraljica Beatrix otvorila u Kući Ane Frank novu "sobu dnevnika" u kojoj će , prvi puta, biti pokazani svi dnevnici i drugi manuskripti Ane Frank.
The Anne Frank House officially opened its doors to the public on 3 May 1960. In the first year 9,000 people came to visit the hiding place of Anne Frank, and now, 50 years later, around 1 million people visit the museum every year.
The museum’s 50th anniversary was marked by a special ceremony for around 600 invited guests in the Westerkerk cathedral. One of the speakers was Prof. Abram de Swaan, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, who described a visit to the Anne Frank House as follows:
“The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam receives a million visitors every year in a cramped building where there is not much more to see than a few relics of the 1940’s in a carefully conserved interior. But there, in that ‘secret annexe’, one can feel the genius loci, the pervading spirit of the place itself where Anne and the others with her lived in hiding, in deadly peril, and where she wrote her secret diary, until they were all arrested and transported to Auschwitz.” ...
A highlight of the ceremony in the Westerkerk was the presentation of the Online Secret Annexe, which allows people all over the world to make a virtual visit to the hiding place of Anne Frank and those who sheltered there with her.
A special feature of this online visit .....