Amsterdam

Some of Amsterdam’s better-known museums and cultural venues are located in Museumplein (meaning Museums’ Square in Dutch), widely regarded as one of Europe’s most important cultural districts, together with Exhibition Road in London, Berlin’s Museuminsel, Vienna’s MuseumQuartier, and the Barrio de Las Letras in Madrid; world-renowned museums located there include the Stedelijk, the Rijksmuseum, and the Van Gogh Museum.
Yet, we suggest curious travelers take their time to explore also the less touristic neighborhoods of this fascinating city; thus, you may discover magnificent museums – of art, cinema, history, science, and design – overlooking quiet canals and riverfronts; Amsterdam is not called Venice of the North by chance, after all.

Above: a panoramic view of Amsterdam’s Museumplein, photo by Mariano Mantel

museums in Amsterdam

Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

Amsterdam - Prinsengracht 263-267
closed: open daily except Yom Kippur

The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a museum dedicated to Anne Frank and the hideout where she and other Jews tried to escape the deportation to Nazi death camps during WWII

ARCAM – Amsterdam Center for Architecture

Amsterdam - Prins Hendrikkade 600
closed: Mondays, April 1, and December 27, 24,25,26 and 31

ARCAM (Amsterdam Center for Architecture) is a museum and research center in the Plantage neighborhood of Amsterdam, dedicated to architecture and urbanism

EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam

Amsterdam - IJpromenade 1
closed: open daily, except April 27

EYE Filmmuseum is a cinema museum on the Amsterdam riverfront housed in a futuristic building designed by Delugan Meissl Architects

Hermitage Amsterdam

Amsterdam - Amstel 51
closed: open every day, except April 27

The Hermitage Amsterdam is an art museum on the Amstel river; it presents notable exhibitions based on the vast collection of the Hermitage Saint Petersburg

Nemo Science Center – Amsterdam

Amsterdam - Oosterdok 2
closed: Mondays, and April 27

Nemo is a museum, a science center and a popular cultural attraction housed in an iconic building designed by architect Renzo Piano in Amsterdam's Docklands

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam - Museumstraat 1
closed: open 365 days a year

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a museum with a one-million-piece collection of Dutch and international art dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Amsterdam - Museumplein 10
closed: open 365 days a year

Founded in 1874 in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk is a museum of Dutch, European, and American modern and contemporary fine art, graphic arts, and design

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Amsterdam - Paulus Potterstraat 7
closed: open 365 days a year

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is an art museum famous for its collection of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, possibly the most important in the world

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