Category - Museums

The Museum of the Tropics was founded in 1864 as Colonial Museum. Today it’s primarily a museum about people and world cultures. Here you will learn more about living traditions and the history of different world...

The Diamond Museum Amsterdam tells the story of 400 years of diamond history. The museum aims to inform you about the fascinating and mystical world of diamonds. It’s Europe’s only diamond museum and you...

The Sex Museum is a popular private museum in the centre of Amsterdam. It’s located in a 17th-century building on the Damrak. Here you’ll find a collection of erotic images, paintings, objects and...

The Amsterdam Museum tells the story of the city of Amsterdam: about the past, the present and the future. In this museum you can view the historical collection of the city of Amsterdam. It consists of more than 80,000...

EYE Film Museum on the Amsterdam IJ river has 46,000 films in its collection from all genres. The EYE houses the largest film library in the Netherlands. The collection of the museum consists of 46,000 films, 500,000...

The Nemo Science Museum is a popular museum in Amsterdam with 600,000 visitors annually. In the museum you can discover how fascinating science and technology are. On five floors with exhibitions, experiments...

The Moco museum is a private boutique museum with a wide range of modern, inspiring and contemporary art. Central is art in which irony is applied to contemporary society. Art from Banksy and Warhol are examples of this...

Museum Willet-Holthuysen is a unique museum on the Amsterdam Herengracht. The double chic canal house was built in 1687. The last residents were Abraham Willet and his wealthy wife Sandrina Holthuysen. They lived here...

In the shadow of the Westertoren is the world famous Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht 263. The museum tells the story of Anne Frank through quotes, photos, videos and original items. You can view the house in its...

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is focused on modern and contemporary art and design. It was founded in 1874 and is internationally regarded as one of the most influential museums for twentieth-century art. The...

Those who are interested in the maritime past can indulge in the Dutch Maritime Museum. It contains the second largest maritime collection in the world. The approximately 300,000 objects come from shipping companies...

In the monumental building De Amstelhof is the Hermitage, a branch of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. The museum is located in Amsterdam in its present form since 2007 and has grown into a top attraction in a short...