Explore Amsterdam

Canal house on the Herengracht kept as a wealthy nineteenth-century Amsterdam family left it, with period rooms and a formal garden behind.

Museum dedicated to the history of tulips and their cultural significance in the Netherlands, with exhibits spanning 400 years of tulip history.

Museum dedicated to cannabis and hemp history, art, and culture; opened in 1987 in Amsterdam.

Museum exploring Amsterdam's role as a centre for free thought, housed in the historic House with the Heads, featuring the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica collection.

The former Heineken brewery on Stadhouderskade, now a visitor centre on how the beer is brewed, with tastings included in the ticket.

Permanent exhibition of around 200 plastinated anatomical specimens, including whole human bodies, on anatomy, health and happiness.

The Amsterdam house where Rembrandt lived and worked for nearly twenty years in the seventeenth century, now a museum furnished as it was in his day and holding a large collection of his etchings.

Art museum in a 17th-century historic building (former Amstelhof) presenting exhibitions from renowned museums, with a courtyard and Grand Café.

Hands-on session in Amsterdam where visitors make and eat traditional Dutch pancakes with a cook.

Museum of prostitution in a former brothel on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, in Amsterdam's red-light district, visited with an audio tour through its rooms.

Amsterdam's oldest building, now a contemporary art venue and monument located on Oudekerksplein.

Four Jewish heritage sites in Amsterdam on one ticket, among them the Jewish Museum and the seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue.

A seventeenth-century canal house whose top three floors hide a complete Catholic church, built in the 1660s when Catholics could not worship in public.

An immersive light and sound show inside the Noorderkerk: works by Van Gogh and Rembrandt projected across the church walls, with Van Gogh's own words from his letters to his brother.

One of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, in the Plantage district of Amsterdam, with historic glasshouses, a café and activities through the seasons.

Museum documenting the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands during WWII and the Holocaust, housed in a historic former teacher training school.

Science museum at Artis in Amsterdam, opened in 2014 and described as the world's first museum of microbes, where microscopes make organisms too small to see visible. It can be visited without the zoo.

Museum telling the story of the Dutch resistance in the Second World War through more than 130 personal accounts, in the Netherlands and in the former colonies.

Interactive natural history museum in a 170-year-old building exploring human, animal, plant and microbial ecosystems.

Interactive science museum with hands-on experiments, workshops, exhibitions and a rooftop terrace featuring science and nature.