Museum District

The Museumplein offers a solid square mile of Western art. From the Golden Age in the Rijksmuseum, to 19th-century artists at the Van Gogh Museum, through the 20th century at the Stedelijk Museum, this cultural valhalla caters to all tastes.

If museums aren't your thing, the vast expanses of green on the modern Museumplein and charming old Vondelpark are perfect places for people-watching, and the city's best upmarket fashion emporia on the PC Hooftstraat and antiques shops along Nieuwe Spiegelstraat are everything a shopoholic could wish for.