Museums
Amsterdam is loaded with fantastic museums. When you’re in Amsterdam you can’t leave without visiting one or more museums. At this page we made a selection of the finest museums of Amsterdam. This includes some big, mainstream museums, such as the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh museum, but also includes some very special museums for the people with alternative interests.
Van Gogh Museum
A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is a fantastic experience. The permanent collection includes more than 200 paintings by Van Gogh and many drawings and letters. This makes it the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world.
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Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum is the biggest and most important historical and artmuseum of The Netherlands. It has many masterpieces in its collection, including "De Nachtwacht" from Rembrandt.
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The Hash Marihuana Hemp Museum
The Hash Marihuana Hemp Museum offers visitors extensive documentation and historical facts about today's use of the cannabis plant as well as about its medicinal, religious and cultural applications.
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Heineken Experience
Now it’s possible to visit one of the former main breweries of Heineken. It’s a Heineken Experience as they like to call it, and you might get the chance to taste a beer, or two…
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Hortus Botanicus
The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is one of the oldest botanic gardens in the world. It is located on the edge of the hectic center of Amsterdam. Behind the 300-year-old gates, however, the bustle of the city seems to disappear.
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Anne Frank house
The former hiding place, where Anne Frank wrote her diary, is now a well-known museum. Anne Frank's diary is among the original objects on display.
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Sex Museum
The Sex Museum is world's first and oldest sex museum. It’s a leading museum on the theme of sensual love with an extensive collection of erotic items in all sorts and kinds.
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Erotic museum
The Erotic museum reflects what it is all about in the Red Light District. Five floors of erotic enjoyment and a collection of erotic art from all over the world.
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Amsterdam Historical Museum
The purpose of the Amsterdam Historical Museum is to conserve, preserve, selectively expand and display and present the historical collection of the city of Amsterdam for as broad a public as possible.
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Tropical Museum
The Tropenmuseum is one of Europe’s leading ethnographic museums. The permanent and temporary exhibitions display (art) objects, photographs, music and film from non-western cultures.
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Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum's permanent exhibition tells the story of Dutch maritime history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art
The Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art is a place where the public comes in contact with self-determined visions and expressions, and where you are challenged to look intensively and compare.
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Filmmuseum
The Filmmuseum is Holland's museum for cinematography. The museum's collection of films covers the whole of the history of cinema.
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FOAM (Museum for Photography)
Foam exhibits all genres of photography. Along with large exhibitions of established (world) famous photographers, Foam also exhibits emerging young talent in smaller short-term shows.
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Torture museum
This small and dark museum exhibits some of the most horrible inventions. Straps, spikes, weights and blades, the inquisition chair and the guillotine, they have it all.
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Dutch Resistance Museum
It is the museum’s task to stimulate the visitor’s curiosity to learn about the most momentous period in the Dutch twentieth-century history: WWII.
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The Rembrandthouse Museum
The house where Rembrandt lived between 1639 and 1658 is now a museum. The restoration of the house was completed in 1911 and Queen Wilhelmina opened the museum.
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Allard Pierson Museum
The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. Ancient civilizations are revived in this museum.
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