A great interactive exhibition featuring the wondrous artifacts of art, pop culture and the animal kingdom. If you tell your family and friends about what you’ve seen, learned and done at Ripley’s Amsterdam, they probably won’t believe you.
Spears, swords, shields, paintings, statues, maps and photographs. This museum on the edge of Oosterpark is one big discovery. You will learn all about cultures and customs from all over the world. Keep your eyes and ears open during a tour as a ‘museum inspector’; …
If mice deserve a museum, so do cats. Het Kattenkabinet (The Cat Cabinet) is located in the Gouden Bocht (the Golden Bend), the most expensive part of Herengracht. You can see a tribute by the Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, to his cat, a beautiful one by …
To learn more about the rich life in the Golden Age, you can visit several houses in the Canal Belt. Museum van Loon is by far the most beautiful. The interior of this 1671 building has been beautifully preserved, as has the art collection of …
Art becomes art if it is different from anything that has been made before and if the painting, sculpture or photograph inspires people, making them happy or sad, creative or angry. Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous Dutch artists in history and …
This building with its large courtyard and attractive garden, Het Amstelhof, was until about 20 years ago used as a home for elderly Amsterdammers. Today, part of the collection of the famous museum The Hermitage of St. Petersburg in Russia is on display. Some paintings …
Let’s walk from the lungs to the heart through a large vein-corridor. Or no, wait: maybe first look inside the head to examine the brain. Corpus is a very special museum near Leiden where you are guided through the human body and learn everything about …
What if you want to see everything in the Netherlands, but only have a few days? Then you simply go to the miniature city of Madurodam in Scheveningen, just outside The Hague. Cross an entire canal with a single step, walk along the most famous …
Beautiful model ships, original cannons, swords, pistols and other weaponry, as well as impressive paintings of naval battles…. Swashbuckling times from the 17th century come to life in Amsterdam’s Scheepvaartmuseum (maritime museum), which has the second largest collection of maritime objects in the world. The …
You learn the most by doing, they say. At science museum NEMO, you are invited to do all sorts of exciting experiments with which you learn everything about nature, energy, electricity, mathematics, machinery and innovation. This exhibition on five floors, in the most striking building …
Rembrandt van Rijn lived and worked in this house. The museum’s collection consists of many sketches and drawings: the studies for Rembrandt’s masterpieces.
