Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is the largest museum in the Netherlands, with more than a million visitors each year. The Rijksmuseum is a familiar Amsterdam landmark and possesses an unrivalled collection of Dutch art, from early religious works to the masterpieces of the Golden Age.
Location: Stadhouderskade 42, The museum quarter.

Anne Frank House
Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam is the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary during World War II. The original of the diary is on display as part of the Anne Frank House's permanent exhibition.
Location: Prinsengracht 267, Jordaan quarter near Westerkerk.

Houseboat museum
Ever wondered what it is like to live right on the canals of Amsterdam? This is your chance to visit a former sailing vessel, although the houseboat is no longer used as a home, it looks like the owner could pop back in at any moment.
Location: Prinsengracht, opposite 296

Amsterdam Tulip Museum
A friendly, small museum about the tulip - flower which is a symbol of the Netherlands, Amsterdam Tulip Museum is located just across the bridge from the Anne Frank House. You may see there interesting multimedia presentations about the history of tulip, its cultivation and the 17th century speculation with tulip bulbs – so called tulip mania. In the musum shop you may buy bulbs of rare tulips and many other decorative flowers. Location: Prinsengracht 112

Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis
In 1687, for the occasion of his marriage to the much younger Sara Hinlopen, the wealthy and influential merchant Albert Geelvinck built a canal mansion. Today the period rooms and the rich garden between the main house and its former carriage house on Keizersgracht is open for the public on Saturdays and Sundays 11:00 - 17:00. A guided tour will give you an impression of the life inside. Address: Keizersgracht 633

Jewish Historical Museum
The museum consists of four synagogues, the oldest dating back to 17th century and houses a rich collection. It shows the history, religion and culture of Jews in the Netherlands.
Location: Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4

Stedelijk Museum
Housing the civic collection of modern art, the museum also stages contemporary art exhibitions. A sculpture garden is to be found behind the building. Location: Oosterdokskade 5, temporarily in the harbour area not far from the Central Station.

Museum Amstelkring
On the edge of the Red Light District, museum houses in the restored 17th-century canal house with two smaller houses to the rear. The lower floors of the building became a museum in 1888 and today contain refurbished rooms, as well as a collection of church silver, religious artefacts and paintings.
Location: Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40.

Hermitage in Amsterdam
A small dependence of the famous Hermitage museum of Saint Petersburg, Russia, organizes each year two interesting exhibitions. Check their website for the current show - if the subject does interest you, it will be certainly worth seeing, because these exhibits are usually intersting and well presented. The Hermitage Amsterdam has some big development plans linked to the adaptation of the Amstelhof – an old and beautiful building at the Amstel River. It should make of Hermitage dependence one of the biggest museums in Amsterdam. Location: building Neerlandia, Nieuwe Herengracht 14

Museum van Loon
An impressive patrician canal house at the very center of Amsterdam. Here is your unique possibility of entering such a house, still owned by the aristocratic Van Loon family, which decided to open it to the public. An interesting private museum documenting the life of the upper class in the city of Amsterdam.
Location: Keizersgracht 672

TIN-Theater museum
The paintings of the wall and ceiling and the marble staircase form the background of the museum of theater history. The spotlight is put on all forms of theater, from the early Middle Ages until the modern experimental works of the 21st century.
Location: Herengracht 168

Allard Pierson museum
Allard Pierson Museum is Amsterdam's the only specialist archeological collection, now owned by the University. The museum contains Egyptian, Greek, Cypriot, Roman, Etruscan and Coptic artefacts.
Location: Oude Turfmarkt 127.

Amsterdam Historical Museum
The permanent exhibitions are housed around the complex's inner courtyards. Clear signposting allows the visitor to concentrate on a specific period of the Amsterdam's history.
Location: Kalverstraat 92, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357, St Luciensteeg.

Civic Guards Gallery (Schuttersgalerij)
A gallery of the 17th century portraits of the important citizens of Amsterdam, both - men and women. These beautiful, painted by the Old Masters portraits, will give you an intense feeling of the life in the city at the time. The entry to the gallery is free.
Location: Kalverstraat 92 (deep in the curtyard)

Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum
Netherlands Maritime Museum holds the largest collection of boats in the world. Displays of real-size ships, models and maps give a chronological view of Dutch naval history. Location: Linnaeusstraat 2, quarter Plantage.
www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl

Tropenmuseum - Tropical Museum
One of the most intriguing Amsterdam's museums belongs to the Royal Institute for the Tropics, a foundation devoted to the study of the cultures of tropical areas around the world.
Location: Kattenburgerplein 1, quarter Plantage.

Museum Willet-Holthuysen
An impressive collection of furniture, silverware and paintings housed in a beautiful preserved 17th-century canalside mansion. How did a wealthy family live in an Amsterdam canal house? Find out in this 17-th century mansion.
Location: Herengracht 605, South-East of the city center, near the river Amstel.

Film museum
The collection of the film museum consists of thousands of movies, photos, posters and scripts of Dutch and international movies. Exclusive masterpieces of cinema history are show every day since the museum is often the only place which has the equipment to show them.
Location: Vondelpark 3

Van Gogh Museum
The museum houses some 200 paintings and 550 sketches showing Van Gogh in all his moods. These combined with hundreds of letters by Van Gogh to Theo, and selected works by his friends and contemporaries, form the core of the museum's collection.
Location: Paulus Potterstraat 7, The museum quarter.

Rembrandt house museum
The house where Rembrandt lived from 1639 until 1659 is now the home of a large collections of his etchings and the very place where most of them where made. It also has a large collection of paintings of people who inspired him, like Pieter Lastman.
Location: Jodenbreestraat 4

NEMO
Right next the Central Station is the largest futuristic science center in the Netherlands, housed in a ship like building designed by Renzo Piano. Here you can be amazed by the world of science and technology. Contrary to other museums, here you must touch the collection and experiment with it.
Location: Oosterdok 2
www.e-nemo.nl

Nieuwe Kerk – New Church
This late Gothic church is the home of several unique exhibitions throughout the year. Each exhibition will show only masterpieces of a certain era or subject.
Location: Dam square

Madame Tussauds
No time to book a visit with princes Maxima? You can see her every day, right next to Kylie Minogue, Bono and Bob Marley. A bit of culture perhaps? Watch Rembrandt at work in his atelier. Life size and frighteningly lifelike.
Location: Dam square

FOAM – photography
Be inspired by the exhibitions in this museum for photography. Join the discussions, study and mingle with the professionals. Your holiday snaps will never be the same again.
Location: Keizersgracht 609

Bijbelsmuseum - Biblical museum
This museum shows visitors the world of the bible: religious objects, and even the smells from the bible stories. Clay tablets, and archaeological findings tell the tale of the origins of the Bible and it’s influence on Dutch society.
Location: Herengracht 366- 368
www.bijbelsmuseum.nl

Museum Het Schip – Amsterdam School of architecture
This is an excellent example of the Amsterdam School of Architecture from the beginning of the 20th century. “The ship” as the block is called, was designed by M. de Klerk, and it’s interior has now been carefully restored.
Location: Spaarndammerplantsoen 140
www.hetschip.nl

Verzetsmuseum - Resistance Museum – WWII
The main exhibition of this museum shows the work of the Dutch resistance during WWII, but it also makes the visitor think about the things we take for granted nowadays, like freedom.
Location: Plantage Kerklaan 61
www.verzetsmuseum.org

Hortus Botanicus - the Botanical Garden
This oasis in the centre of the city has always been called the jewel in the crown of Amsterdam. It was established in 1638 as an herb garden for Amsterdam doctors and chemists and has since developed into a living museum with plants from all continents.
Location: Plantage Midddenlaan 2a
www.dehortus.nl

Theo Thijssen Museum
An old small house, typical for the Jordaan area of Amsterdam accommodates on its ground floor a museum of the popular Dutch writer, author of popular in the Netherlands books for children - Theo Thijssen. The sympathetic, very small museum with a strong local character. Location: Eerste Leliedwarsstraat 16 (in the Jordaan).

Museum of Bags and Purses (Tassen Museum Hendrikje)
Tassen Museum Hendrikje or in English: Museum of Bags and Purses is a private museum of ladies handbags. This may seem not serious, but Hendrikje Ivo, an antique dealer from Amstelveen who established the collection, has today more than 3000 handbags. All the big designers’ names are beautifully presented, with Dior, Chanel and Versace, as well as hundreds of bags from the past, with the ones from the late Middle ages as the oldest. The museum has a café, with a lunchroom, perfectly maintained garden and a museum shop with… yes; you guessed it right, hundreds of design handbags. Location: Herengracht 573

Pianola Museum
A small museum of pianolas displays automatic pianos form the beginning of the 20th century, which were reproducing music using the carton rolls with a hole for each music note. Pianolas were very popular until 1930's. They had seemed to be an invention of the future. The later development of the phonographic industry made the pianolas obsolete. The museum has 15 original instruments and 20 000 paper music rolls. The Pianola Museum is located in the Jordaan, in a short walk distance from the Anne Frank Museum.
Location: Westerstraat 106.

Stadsarchief Amsterdam - Municipal Archives of Amsterdam
In the archives and their collections you can find out everything about the history of your relatives from Amsterdam, your house or the neighborhood you live in. The total length of the archives is about 35 km. The Standsarchief organizes exhibitions and screens documentary films about Amsterdam.
Location: Vijzelstraat 32

De Appel (The Apple) - Foundation for contemporary art
A center for contemporary art with an exhibition and performance space, a projection room and a library. De Appel aims to discover and present to a larger public the newest of the new in modern art.
Location: Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10
www.deappel.nl

ARCAM - Amsterdam Centre for Architecture
The ARCAM foundation aims to show the public all aspects of Amsterdam’s architecture – future, present and historical. It is housed in a unique building designed by René van Zuuk. You can find there different exhibitions throughout the year, and once a month a distinguished architect is invited to talk about his or her work.
Location: Prins Hendrikkade 600 (just in front of Nemo, low on the quayside)

Energetica – National Energy Center
In an old Amsterdam power station dating from 1903, a museum focused on the role energy production plays in our life. Energetica directs its presentation mainly at students, but for all people interested in the history of the use of electricity, seing Energetica’s collection of old motors, instruments, lifts and generators, together with first electric household appliances, can be very interesting.
Location: Hoogte Kadijk 400

Huis Marseille – photography
Every three month this foundation for photography organizes new exhibitions in this former house of a wealthy French merchant. All imaginary forms of photography are on display, with an emphasis on the visual quality.
Location: Keizersgracht 401
www.huismarseille.nl

Vakbondsmuseum - Trade Unions Museum
Situated in one of the finest trade union buildings, called de Burcht (Stronghold) by a Dutch claassic architect Hendrik Berlage, build in 1900 for the Dutch diamond workers, the museum is documenting trade unions history in the Netherlands.
Location: Henri Polaklaan 9

Persmuseum – Press museum
This museum guards over four centuries of journalistic heritage and has a large collection of newspapers and magazines, a unique collection of political images and an extensive library of the Dutch printer press.
Location: Zeeburgerkade 10

Ajax Museum
This history of Ajax football club, images of 100 years of football legends from these “Sons of the Gods”, one of the best know teams in the Netherlands and across the borders.
Location: Amsterdam ArenA, Arena Boulevard 29, Amsterdam ZO
www.ajax.nl

Brilmuseum – National Museum of Spectacles
In an old town house (dating from 1620), at one of the narrow streets in the very centre of Amsterdam, an interesting small museum has been located focused on just one object: the spectacles. If you are interested in the history of fashion or the spectacles in particular – this is your chance, because the collection is rich, the old house impressive and the Brilmuseum presentation remarkable. Location: Gasthiusmolensteeg 7

Sex museum
Another must when in Amsterdam: The Venustemple houses an extensive collection of erotic paintings, pictures, objects and recordings from different ages and cultures all over the world.
Location: Damrak 18
www.sexmuseumamsterdam.nl

Torture museum
This small and dark museum shows some of the most horrid inventions to torture and execute people. Complete with straps, spikes, weights and blades, these machines will make you thankful that they are no longer used in modern times.
Location: Singel 449

Erotic Museum
Located right in the hart of the red-light district, this museum reflects the history of the area. Five floors full of erotic enjoyment and artwork.
Location: OZ. Achterburgwal 54

Heineken Experience
No visit is complete without taking a peek in the breweries of the worlds best beer. Find out everything you wanted to know about the history of beer making and take a bottleride to see the process of beer making from beginning until the end.
Location: Stadhouderskade 78
www.heinekenexperience.com

De Kattenkabinet - The Cat Cabinet
A small private art museum, established by its founder William Meijer to memorize his cat. It may seem a joke, but the exhibited art works, all with obligatory cats as their subject, were chosen with a great care and are clearly out of the ordinary. Located in an old patrician canal house with a fully restored, richly decorated interior. Location: Herengracht 497


Remember: Museumkaart is designed to enter more than 400 museums in Holland!