Explore Muiden

Museum exploring death, mourning, and commemoration practices with exhibitions and events.

Cultural museum in Amsterdam featuring colonial heritage exhibitions and diverse cultural collections.

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

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.

The National Maritime Museum, in 's Lands Zeemagazijn, the naval storehouse Daniël Stalpaert built on the Oosterdok in 1656. Paintings, ship models, weapons and world maps tell the story of Dutch seafaring, and a full-size replica of the 18th-century VOC ship Amsterdam is moored outside.

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

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

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

Interactive immersive experience featuring 25+ upside-down rooms, optical illusions, photo-perfect decors, and a café.

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.

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

Photography museum in Amsterdam featuring contemporary exhibitions and a magazine dedicated to photographic art.

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.

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.

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

Art museum in Amsterdam dedicated to cats, featuring paintings, drawings, sculptures and artworks spanning centuries of cat imagery in art and culture.

Interactive museum featuring oddities, curiosities, wax figures, and hands-on exhibits from Ripley's collection of over 35,000 rarities.

Interactive dark-history experience with live actors, elaborate sets, and special effects covering 750 years of Amsterdam's darkest chapters.

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