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Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder is one of the oldest and most special museums in Amsterdam. Discover a rare, well-preserved canal house from the Golden Age. Narrow corridors and stairs lead to historically furnished living areas, kitchens and cupboards and end in what is literally the highlight of the museum: a complete church in the attic.

Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder

Het Suriname Museum is een museum voor alle Nederlanders en zal een grote kloof in ons nationale geheugen overbruggen door zich te focussen op meer dan 350 jaar geschiedenis over: de oorspronkelijke bewoners, slavernij, kolonialisme, marrons, de schatkamers van de jungle, de Chinese/Javaanse/Hindoestaanse en andere migraties, Suriname en Surinamers in WO2, Surinaamse helden en iconen en de bijdragen van Surinamers in Nederland.Het Suriname Museum is een plek waar alle Nederlanders en bezoekers van over de hele wereld kunnen leren over de rijkdom en diversiteit van Suriname hoe het heeft bijgedragen aan het vormen van Nederland.

Suriname Museum

Nxt is an experimental art space in Amsterdam dedicated to immersive experiences at the intersection of art, science, and technology. It commissions and presents ground-breaking museum installations by pioneering living artists.

Nxt Museum

The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam is a museum of world cultures, housed in one of the most beautiful museum buildings of the Netherlands, off the beaten tourist track in Amsterdam’s hip east.

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

For nearly four centuries, Amsterdam's Hortus Botanicus has regaled visitors with its lush greenhouses and exotic plants. Originally founded in 1638 to serve as a herb garden for the city’s doctors and pharmacists, it’s one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world.

Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam

Visit Huis Willet-Holthuysen and experience what it was like to live in a canal house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam.

Huis Willet-Holthuysen

Art Zoo Museum is an artistic tribute to the animal kingdom and nature, housed in one of Amsterdam's most beautiful 17th-century canal houses. In this oasis in the heart of the city, you gaze from enormous aviaries into a world where animals reign supreme. The breathtaking taxidermy art of Darwin, Sinke &amp; Van Tongeren fills the spaces. From colourful birds and winding snakes to imposing crocodiles and a T. rex – it's as if they could spring to life at any moment.

ArtZoo

Explore Jewish life in the Netherlands in the Jewish Museum. It is located in four monumental synagogues in the middle of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.Explore Jewish life in the NetherlandsExplore Jewish life in the Netherlands in these four superbly preserved monumental synagogues. From contemporary art to modern history: paintings, ceremonial objects, films and 3D presentations provide a full, up-to-date survey of Jewish religion and culture in the Netherlands over the centuries.

Joods Museum

In the historic ambiance of a traditional Amsterdam canal house, the Amsterdam Pipe Museum presents an overview of fashion and design in smoking pipes. The exhibition spans a period of 2,500 years, with exciting objects from five continents. In the meantime, the museum has been polished up and looks radiant again.

Pijpenkabinet / Amsterdam Pipe Museum

The National Holocaust Museum opened in March 2024. It is the first and indeed only museum to tell the entire story of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands. A history of segregation, persecution and murder. Yet also of rescue, survival and solidarity.

Nationaal Holocaustmuseum

A completely renovated Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys, where you discover more about your own mind and that of others in an interactive way. A museum full of personal stories, surprising art and a rich historical collection, at the intersection of care, art and science. A visit to the museum is an experience where everything revolves around the wonder and versatility of the mind. The setting is the ancient former Pest, Dol and Leproos house of the city of Haarlem.

Museum van de Geest

OSCAM, Open Space Contemporary Art Museum, is the museum for art, fashion, design, craftsmanship and development in Amsterdam.

Oscam

A visit to the Museum of the Canals (Grachtenmuseum Amsterdam) is the perfect way to learn more about the history of Amsterdam’s Canal Ring. The museum looks at the 17th-century city expansion projects that led to Amsterdam’s ring of canals which received UNESCO world heritage status in 2010. After seeing the interactive displays, you’ll look at Amsterdam in a whole new light when wandering through the city’s streets or taking a canal cruise.

Grachtenmuseum Amsterdam

The Allard Pierson is the museum where you will be introduced to the collections of the University of Amsterdam. Walk through Egyptian antiquity and the Greek and Roman worlds. Discover sculptures in the Plaster Gallery and maps and atlases in the GeoZone. In the permanent exhibition, you see mostly the archaeological collections, while the temporary exhibitions regularly highlight one of our other heritage collections.

Allard Pierson Museum

With more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings and 700 letters, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam manages the worlds largest collection of works of art by Vincent van Gogh. The museum opened its doors on Museumplein in 1973 and is one of the most popular museums in the world.

Van Gogh Museum

Right next to the Central Station is one of the most modern architectural highlights of Amsterdam. NEMO Science Museum, the large, green building houses the largest science museum in the Netherlands. The building was designed by the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano. From the roof square you can admire a magnificent view of Amsterdam.

NEMO Science Museum

The Stedelijk Museum - Modern and Contemporary Art and Design, located on Museumplein in Amsterdam, is the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in the Netherlands. The historic red-brick museum building dates from 1895 and the museum's collection includes exceptional works of art by world-famous modern artists, including Dutch artists from the 20th century.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

ARTIS-Groote Museum is Amsterdam’s interactive nature museum of where you explore your connection with the natural world.

Artis Groote Museum

The striking architecture of the Eye Filmmuseum made it quickly become one of Amsterdam’s modern icons. Situated on the northern bank of the River IJ, just opposite Central Station, this cinema, film museum, café/restaurant and cutting-edge event location is a must-see. Eye Filmmuseum is free to visit with the I amsterdam City Card, but for some of the exhibitions there is an additional surcharge.

Eye Filmmuseum

Museum for street art and graffiti. More than 160 artworks by over 150 artists from all over the world. Get to know the stories behind the artworks, stories that often remain untold in the streets. The collection is constantly growing, so there's always a good chance of catching artists live in action. Located on the dynamic NDSM terrain in Amsterdam Noord.

STRAAT Museum

Huis Marseille is the first photography museum in Amsterdam. Since September 1999, the museum has offered a rich and varied exhibition programme that changes on average four times a year. The exhibitions are shown in two seventeenth-century canal houses in which many original details are intact, such as lavish ceiling paintings, stucco work, marble and a red period room in the style of Louis XIV. The museum also has a photo library, a specialist photo book shop and a canal garden with a historic garden house.

Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie

Het Bijbels Museum is een nomadisch kunstmuseum rond zingeving. Een museum-in-een-museum. We presenteren onze tentoonstellingen bij partnerlocaties in heel Nederland. Met onze tentoonstellingen bieden wij bezinning, bezieling en inspiratie.

Bijbels Museum

In the birthplace of the world-famous writer Multatuli (1829 -1887) you will find a study centre and an exhibition space, focusing on the life and work of the writer Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by the pseudonym Multatuli.

Multatuli-Museum

The Rijksmuseum is the museum of the Netherlands. We tell the story of 800 years of Dutch history from 1200 to the present. We also organize several exhibitions per year from our own collection and with (inter)national loans.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Museum Van Loon, the former house of the regent Van Loon family, is situated in the heart of the Amsterdam Canals. Willem van Loon was in 1602 co-founder of the Dutch East Indian Company. The house was designed in 1672 by architect Adriaen Dortsman. The first inhabitant of the house was Ferdinand Bol, a student of the famous painter Rembrandt. In the rooms one finds beautiful portraits, impressive pieces of furniture and silver and porcelain from different centuries. PLEASE NOTE: You can only pay with Card in the museum.

Museum Van Loon

Museum Rembrandthuis is the only place in the world where you can experience how Rembrandt once lived. In the homely setting of the museum on the Jodenbreestraat, you will get to know the man behind his art. Be inspired by the man, the artist, his city and his time. You can’t get any closer to Rembrandt than this.

Museum Het Rembrandthuis

At a beautiful location in Amsterdam you will find Het Scheepvaartmuseum. Here you can discover everything about five centuries of maritime history and how strongly this is connected to the society of today and the future. Het Scheepvaartmuseum is a national museum in a world city and the museum shows how Dutch history is connected to water.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

For more than two years, Anne Frank and her family hid in the Secret Annex of the building at Prinsengracht 263, where Anne's father, Otto Frank, had his business. The Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer also had their hiding place here.In hidingThe entrance to the Secret Annex was hidden behind a revolving cupboard that was specially made for this purpose. The office staff helped the people in hiding with food and brought 'news from outside'. On August 4, 1944, the hiding place was betrayed and the people in hiding were deported to various concentration camps. Only Otto Frank survived the war.Experience the time of Anne FrankThe rooms in the Anne Frank House, although no longer containing any furniture, still exude the atmosphere of the period in hiding. Quotes from the diary, photos, film footage and original objects of the people in hiding and the helpers illustrate the events that took place here. Anne Frank's checkered diary and other original writings can be seen here.

Anne Frank Huis

Museum Het Schip is the Amsterdam School Museum about art, architecture and housing. The Museum is located in three fabulous housing complexes designed by the renowned architect Michel de Klerk in Amsterdam West.

Museum Het Schip

Foam is the place, in the center of Amsterdam, for photography in all its guises: from documentary to fashion, from contemporary to historical. A museum with an international allure.

FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

The Oude Kerk in Amsterdam’s Red Light District is the city’s oldest building and one of the city’s youngest art institutions. In the seven or so centuries since it was founded, the church has evolved into one of the most imposing Gothic ecclesiastical buildings in northern Europe.

Oude Kerk

The Royal Palace Amsterdam is one of 3 palaces used by the royal family. The family uses the Palace during state visits, award ceremonies and other official receptions.History Royal Palace AmsterdamVisitors can learn about the building's rich history. Its use, a century and a half as Amsterdam's City Hall, five years as a Royal and Imperial Palace, and almost two centuries as a reception palace for the House of Orange has left its mark. An annual changing summer exhibition illustrates the rich history of the building, including as a monument from the 17th century. Every autumn, the work of young painters is exhibited as part of the Royal Prize for Painting.

Paleis op de Dam

The Hollandsche Schouwburg was used by the German occupiers during World War II as the place where Jews had to report. Tens of thousands of women and men were deported from here to concentration and extermination camps. Today, it is a memorial site.

Hollandsche Schouwburg

De Nieuwe Kerk is world famous for its beautiful architecture, the changing exhibitions and its special relationship with the Dutch Royal family. The church, more than six centuries old, is located in the heart of the city, on Dam square.

De Nieuwe Kerk

How we deal with death says a lot about who we are, our origins and the times in which we live. In Museum tot Zover these themes are discussed and all ways of grieving are exhibited. Museum Tot Zover is unique in its kind and sheds light on death in all its facets. The museum opened in 2007 and presents groundbreaking exhibitions such as Funeral Train, Afterlife, The Pixelated Revolution, De Vogelvanger and Post Mortem.

Tot Zover - Nederlands Uitvaartmuseum

Discover the rich history of Amsterdam in the City Archives. Various exhibitions and activities present a unique view of the capital divided into controversial themes. The Amsterdam City Archives is the former municipal archives of Amsterdam.

Stadsarchief Amsterdam (De Bazel)

The oldest riding school in the Netherlands in the heart of AmsterdamTucked away behind a stately gate on Vondelstraat, a stone's throw from Leidseplein and bordering Vondelpark, lies one of Amsterdam's best-kept secrets: De Hollandsche Manege (The Dutch Riding School). This magnificent city riding school, dating back to 1882, is not only the oldest riding school in the Netherlands but also a unique national monument with a rich history.

Hollandsche Manege

At the Amsterdam Houseboat Museum, you get the chance toexperience first-hand what it’s like to live on the canals in a houseboat in Amsterdam.The Museum houseboat Amsterdamis located in the “Hendrika Maria”, a former cargo ship built in 1914.

Woonbootmuseum (Houseboat Museum)

Discover one of the most beautiful “hidden gems” of Amsterdam: The Luther Museum. Once, hundreds of old people and orphans found shelter here in the Old Men and Women's House of the Evangelical Lutheran Diaconate. Now we show how that community has been of value to the city and country for more than 500 years. Will we see you soon?

Luther Museum Amsterdam

The Geelvinck Pianola Museum is one of Amsterdam’s smallest museums, tucked away in the Jordaan district. Inside the museum, you will find numerous pianolas (player pianos), reproduction pianos and related objects. The museum archive has a collection of over 30,000 perforated paper music rolls, most of which can be played on the different instruments housed in the museum. Visit the Pianola Museum to learn more about the history and technology of these magical instruments that nearly play themselves.

Geelvinck Pianola Museum

H’ART Museum is an art museum where famous works of art and stories from around the world are brought together in one-of-a-kind exhibitions. Our exhibitions are always temporarily on show but will stay with you forever. The museum is in a historical landmark, at the heart of the Dutch capital. A cultural oasis - with a unique indoor garden and a bustling Grand Café - where constantly many interesting things are going on, from concerts, lectures, and movie nights to art education for children and young adults.

H’ART Museum

The Moco Museum (Modern Contemporary) aims to introduce a broad and young target group in Amsterdam to works by international greats in the art world such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, JR, KAWS, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Yayoi Kusama, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Studio Irma and many more!

MOCO Museum

Het Amsterdam Museum, opgericht in 1926, nodigt als innovatief stadsmuseum bewoners en bezoekers van Amsterdam uit om mede-eigenaar te worden van onze stad – een metropool in het klein. Dat doen we door de stad te vieren, maar ook door de mindere kanten bespreekbaar te maken en te onderzoeken wat beter kan.

Amsterdam Museum

Discover the Verzetsmuseum (Dutch Resistance Museum) in the heart of Amsterdam and step back in time to the era of war, dictatorship, persecution, and resistance. Here you will uncover the impressive history behind the difficult choices that the Dutch had to make during the dark days of the German occupation in the Second World War. 100 personal stories challenge you to reflect on what you would do in these extreme and challenging circumstances. They provide insights into the value of tolerance, freedom, and democracy.

Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam

The Embassy of the Free Mind is a museum library in a historic building from 1622 located on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. It is a platform for free-thinking, inspired by the ideas of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Collection. You will find beautiful prints from the books of, among others, 17th-century free thinkers. Everyone is welcome!

Embassy of the Free Mind

The futuristic building of Arcam is a striking appearance at the Oosterdok, and is worth a visit for that alone. The building houses an extensive information point about Amsterdam architecture.

ARCAM (Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam)

The Van Eesteren Museum is dedicated to Amsterdam’s Westelijke Tuinsteden ('Western Garden Towns’), which arose after WWII, and their architect Cornelis van Eesteren.Western Garden Cities, world famousAmsterdam New – West is the pinnacle of post-war urban development and architecture in the Netherlands. Under Van Eesteren's leadership, the General Extension Plan (AUP) was drawn up in 1935, his urban development plans were revolutionary. The functional city was central; living, working, recreation and traffic were separated. The houses were built according to the principles of Nieuwe Bouwen; light, air and space, in other words sunlight and fresh air for every home.

Van Eesteren Museum

Each year, about 340.000 visitors come to see the Royal Coster Diamonds craftsmen at work. Free guided tours demonstrating the process of cutting and polishing diamonds are led by Royal Coster’s accommodating staff. The tours are available in more than 15 languages. After the tour, visitors can browse in the spacious showrooms.