Museums/Galleries in Amsterdam

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

Allard Pierson Museum Once the repository of the nation's gold supply, this former National...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Amsterdam Museum Any city that began in the 13th century as a boggy swamp to become...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Anne Frankhuis Anne Frank, one of the most famous authors of the 20th century...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

ARCAM Architecture Centrum Amsterdam is dedicated to promoting modern...	Museums / Galleries	Waterfront

Beurs van Berlage Down otherwise tacky Damrak is the old stock-exchange building...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center


Bijbels Museum Although this museum does indeed have a massive collection of...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Erotic Museum "Five floors of highly suggestive trinkets and photos" is probably...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

FOAM Dutch photographers such as Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum One would think that more effort could have gone into the name...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Hermitage Amsterdam Taking advantage of 300 years of historical links between Amsterdam...	Museums / Galleries	Jewish Quarter

Het Scheepvaartmuseum Designed by Daniël Stalpaert in 1656 as a storehouse for...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Huis Marseille This cutting-edge, contemporary photography museum is housed...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Joods Historisch Museum Four Ashkenazi synagogues (or shuls, as they are called in Yiddish)...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	Jewish Quarter

Madame Tussauds Amsterdam This branch of the world-famous wax museum, above the Peek &...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Multatuli Huis This museum honors the beliefs and work (and continues the legacy)...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis Don't miss this canal-house museum with an unusual entrance on...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Museum het Rembrandthuis This is the house that Rembrandt bought, flush with success...	Museums / Galleries	Jewish Quarter

Museum van Loon Once home to one of Rembrandt's most successful students, Ferdinand...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Pijpenkabinet Considering Amsterdam's rich history of tobacco trading and its...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Rijksmuseum The Netherlands' greatest museum, the famed Rijksmuseum is home...	Museums / Galleries	Museum District

Stadsarchief Amsterdam Established in 1914, the city's archives comprise millions of...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art Amsterdam's celebrated treasurehouse of modern art, the Stedelijk...	Museums / Galleries	Museum District

Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Housed in a building from 1664, this unusual museum has the largest...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Tropenmuseum The country's largest anthropological museum was first built...	Museums / Galleries	East of the Amstel

Vakbondsmuseum The history of Dutch trade unions may not seem especially scintillating...	Museums / Galleries	East of the Amstel

Van Gogh Museum Opened in 1973, this remarkable light-infused building—based...	Museums / Galleries	Museum District

Verzetsmuseum From May 14, 1940, to May 5, 1945, the Netherlands was occupied...	Museums / Galleries	East of the Amstel

Werfmuseum 't Kromhout Started in 1757 by Doede Jansen Kromhout, a ship's carpenter...	Museums / Galleries	Waterfront

Willet-Holthuysen Museum Here's a rare chance to experience what it was like to live in...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Woonbootmuseum There are around 2,250 houseboats in Amsterdam (and one especially...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring
Sights Overview »