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Van Gogh Museum

Amsterdam Botanic Garden

The Van Gogh Museum is the museum with the world's largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh. Nowhere else in the world can you see so many of Van Gogh's paintings in one place. Here, you can follow the development of the artist's work through all its stages and compare it with pictures by other 19th-century painters in the collection. In addition, the museum offers a wide variety of temporary exhibitions on a large number of subjects from the history of 19th-century art.

van gogh museum website

Our Lord in the Attic is one of theoldest and most remarkable museums in Amsterdam. Behind the characteristic facade of the house by the canal lies a largely original 17th-century home and a complete hidden church. This hidden church 'in the attic' was built during the Reformation, when Catholics were forbidden to hold public services. Today, the church and the house form the backdrop to a succession of striking exhibitions highlighting religion and contemporary art.

museum our lord in the attic website

One of the oldest botanic gardens in existence with a world-famous collection.. Today, there are more than 6,000 plants (>4,000 species) growing in the garden and greenhouses. The Hortus is located in the Plantage district on the edge of the hectic center of Amsterdam. Behind the 300-year-old gates, however, the bustle of the city seems to disappear.

amsterdam botanic garden website

Amsterdam Historical Museum

Anne Frank House

The Amsterdam Historical Museum tells the compelling story of the growth and heyday of Amsterdam. Go on a fascinating journey of discovery down seven centuries of the city's history, through the intimate rooms and courtyards of this former Civic Orphanage, where Amsterdams orphan's once lived.
A lively, international city like Amsterdam deserves an exciting museum. So the most modern forms of multimedia are used. Discover the surprising objects that make the past seem real. One moment you´ll be hoisting a horse out of the canal, the next you´ll be in one of the white cars of the 1970´s. Or ring the doorbell of one of the flats in the Bijlmer and hear all about how great it is to live there.

amsterdam historical museum website

The Municipal archives are housed in a well-equipped building complex of seven units: one of them, the former town hall of the municipality of Nieuwer-Amstel was built in 1892. This is where the entrance is for the permanent exhibition: Amsteldijk 67. In 2007 the Municipal archives will move to a new large building the Bazel, in the Vijzelstraat. We will close at the Amsteldijk from the 2nd of April 2007. On the 7th of August we will open again in our new building in the Vijzelstraat.

amsterdam municipal archives website

Visit the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her diary during the Second World War. For more than two years, Anne Frank lived secretively with the other people in hiding in the back part of her father's office building at # 263 Prinsengracht. The Secret Annex has been preserved in its authentic state. The front part of the building - the offices where the Helpers worked - has been restored to the style and ambiance of the war years. Quotations from the diary, photographs, films and original objects - belonging to the people in hiding and those who helped them - all serve to illustrate the events that occurred at this location. Anne's orignal diary is on display in the museum along with some of her other notebooks. The museum's interactive 'Free 2choose' exhibition explores the present day boundaries of freedom.

anne frank museum website

The Rembrandt House

NEMO

Rijksmuseum

What was Rembrandt's life like? Where did Rembrandt paint and etch his masterpieces? The Rembrandt House Museum welcomes visitors who would like to feel his presence in it's recently restored seventeenth-century rooms. The Rembrandt House owns an almost complete collection of Rembrandt's world-famous etchings. A changing selection is on permanent display in the museum. There are aslo regular special exhibitions devoted to Rembrandt and to past and present artists who have been inspired by Rembrandt.

the rembrandt house website

Science center NEMO is the biggest science center in The Netherlands. Here you can discover the wonderful world of science and technology in a playful and entertaining way. The Amsterdam-based NEMO covers a wide range of scientific and technological subjects.

nemo website

The Rijksmuseum presents the cream of its collection in the Philips Wing. The presentation offers the unique opportunity to see all the highlights of the Golden Age together: the wonderful dolls' houses, a treasure-trove of silver, the most beautiful Delftware, magnificent militia paintings, icons from Dutch history. And of course, the famous paintings by Jan Steen, Frans Hals, Vermeer and Rembrandt, with The Night Watch as the highlight. The collection of over 400 masterpieces together tells the impressive story of the political, economic and artistic wonders of the Golden Age.

rijksmuseum website

Allard Pierson Museum

Royal Palace

Jewish Historical Museum

Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. The ancient civilisations of ancient Egypt, the Near East, the Greek World, Etruria and the Roman Empire are revived in this museum. Art-objects and utensils, dating from 4000 B.C. till 500 A.D. give a good impression of everyday-life, mythology and religion in Antiquity. There are also several scale models of ancient temples and buildings. In the ancient Egypt department there is a room dedicated to death with mummies, sarcophagi and a film showing the process of mummification. Our so-called plaster-cast-attic, only to be visited with a guided tour, shows copies of world-famous Roman and Greek statues. Every year two or three temporary exhibitions are organised

allard pierson museum website

The Royal Palace of Amsterdam was built in the 17th century as the new city hall. The Palace contains one of the most complete collections of Empire style furniture dating from the Napoleontic era. The splendid paintings by Ferdinand Bol, Jacob Jordaens and Govert Flinck and fine sculpted work by Artus Quellinus refer to the governmental and administrative functions that the building once had.

royal palace website

Jewish Historical Museum (Joods Historisch Museum) Four restored synagogues in the heart of Amsterdam?s former Jewish quarter now house the Jewish Historical Museum. Its central themes are the eventful history of the Jews in the Netherlands and their colourful culture. The Jewish Historical Museum opened in 1932 at the Weigh House in Nieuwmarkt. In 1987 the museum moved to the synagogue complex on Nieuwe Amstelstraat, near Waterlooplein. This comprises two large and two smaller synagogues with an annex. The Great Synagogue is the oldest building, dating from 1671.

jewish historic museum website