Amsterdam museums

Museums in Amsterdam are among the main tourist attractions. The Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank House and the Stedelijk Museum are the most popular choices, but there are many interesting small museums. Amsterdam has over fifty museums, which attract almost two million visitors every year. Alongside the wealth of majestic Golden Age paintings, you'll find exciting modern art, press, film, theatre and photography museums and some unique Dutch treats like the Heineken and Ajax Experience shows and the Houseboat museum. And Amsterdam wouldn't be Amsterdam without the likes of the Sex, Erotic, Hash or Torture museums.
For kids there is an impressive NEMO; a hands-on science and technology museum housed in the unique, boat-shaped building. Nearby Het Scheepvaart Museum – The National Maritime Museum is also worth a visit with its replica of a Dutch trading ship, docked behind. Museums such as the Tropical Museum and Jewish Museum also include children's section. The Museum card is the ideal solution for museums and arts addicted, for tourists wishing to stay in Amsterdam longer and visiting museums elsewhere in the Netherlands. The museum art scene is completed by Amsterdam numerous art galleries.

Art Museums
Netherlands have an unparalleled tradition of art painting with names of the highest magnitude as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh and Mondrian and hundreds of wonderful artists of lesser fame but often mysterious, fascinating talents. Amsterdam art museums are truly unique on the world’s scale. The Rijksmuseum is the one you should not miss, even if you are in Amsterdam for one day only.

History Museums
Dutch people have a conscience of their history and love of their country tradition. Their historical museums are never dull – in a spectacular way they illustrate the intricate and rich character of the nation. The renewed Scheepvaart Museum – The National Maritime Museum is real fun to visit.

Fun Museums and Exhibits
Amsterdam has been always welcoming visitors. Avid sailors and traders, the Dutch have been always tolerant and open to the outside world. Today the city has a fame of being permissive, comparing even to other cities in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is open for tourists and several attractive exhibits have been prepared. Some around recognized Dutch brands as Heineken and Ajax, other on themes as sex and soft drugs.

Amsterdam ZOO and Nature Museums
Dutch love nature and the country is the world’s biggest exporter of flowers. Amsterdam ZOO called Artis, small and old fashioned is very pleasant to visit. The Botanical Garden, one of the oldest in the world, bears still its historical Latin name, Hortus Botanicus. A number of smaller institutions complete the picture.

Technology Museums
In Amsterdam technology museums have been created mostly for kids, as NEMO or Electric Tram Line Museum, but there are also some smaller museums, which continue grown up private collections. Sometimes really small, located in one room as Computer Museum, they document the fascination with quickly changing technology.

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World Peace Museum
One of the few of its kind in the world, the Amsterdam World Peace Museum will be established in the near future just a step further than the Anne Frank House. In its rooms the museum documents history of the idea of global peace, the most important peace initiatives and the great leaders of humanity who strived for the idea of World Peace.

Houseboat museum
Ever wondered what it is like to live right on the canals of Amsterdam? This is your chance to visit a former sailing vessel, although the houseboat is no longer used as a home, it looks like the owner could pop back in at any moment.
Location: Prinsengracht, opposite 296

Pijpenkabinet – Pipe Museum
Thousands of pipes on show, carefully collected and presented in the beautiful interior of a 17th century's canal house at the Prinsengracht. The best collection of its kind in Europe, confirmed by the Dutch Museum Register, recognized as the national museum in its field by the Dutch Ministry of Culture. Location: Prinsengracht 488 (near Leidsestraat)

Max Euwe Centrum (Chess Museum)
A small museum on the first floor of the former prison – Max Euwe Centrum, named after the Dutch World Chess Master from 1935, is a gathering place for the chess fanatics in Amsterdam. History of the game of chess in the world and the unique person of Max Euwe, world celebrity during his times, are carefully presented through photographs and memorabilia.
Location: Max Euwe Plein 30A (near Leidseplein)

Tropenmuseum - Tropical Museum
One of the most intriguing Amsterdam's museums belongs to the Royal Institute for the Tropics, a foundation devoted to the study of the cultures of tropical areas around the world.
Location: Kattenburgerplein 1, quarter Plantage.

Nieuwe Kerk – New Church
This late Gothic church is the home of several unique exhibitions throughout the year. Each exhibition will show only masterpieces of a certain era or subject.
Location: Dam square

FOAM – photography
Be inspired by the exhibitions in this museum for photography. Join the discussions, study and mingle with the professionals. Your holiday snaps will never be the same again.
Location: Keizersgracht 609

Museum of Bags and Purses (Tassen Museum Hendrikje)
Tassen Museum Hendrikje or in English: Museum of Bags and Purses is a private museum of ladies handbags. This may seem not serious, but Hendrikje Ivo, an antique dealer from Amstelveen who established the collection, has today more than 3000 handbags. All the big designers’ names are beautifully presented, with Dior, Chanel and Versace, as well as hundreds of bags from the past, with the ones from the late Middle ages as the oldest. The museum has a café, with a lunchroom, perfectly maintained garden and a museum shop with… yes; you guessed it right, hundreds of design handbags. Location: Herengracht 573

Pianola Museum
A small museum of pianolas displays automatic pianos form the beginning of the 20th century, which were reproducing music using the carton rolls with a hole for each music note. Pianolas were very popular until 1930's. They had seemed to be an invention of the future. The later development of the phonographic industry made the pianolas obsolete. The museum has 15 original instruments and 20 000 paper music rolls. The Pianola Museum is located in the Jordaan, in a short walk distance from the Anne Frank Museum.
Location: Westerstraat 106.

Huis Marseille – photography
Every three month this foundation for photography organizes new exhibitions in this former house of a wealthy French merchant. All imaginary forms of photography are on display, with an emphasis on the visual quality.
Location: Keizersgracht 401
www.huismarseille.nl

Olympic Experience
A small museum showing reception of the modern Olympic Games idea, in the Netherlands. It is located at the entry to the monumental Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, built in 1928 and today registered as an architectural monument. While the museum theme is the Dutch Olympic tradition, the stadium is a must see for all architecture lovers. 
Location: Olympisch Stadion 2

Ajax Experience in Amsterdam
An attraction created at Rembrandtplein for the fans of the famous Amsterdam A.F.C. Ajax football club, one of the most celebrated and oldest soccer clubs in the world. Multimedia presentation of Ajax history and the club’s philosophy, computer visuals explaining Ajax way of football play as well as innovative ‘skill rooms’ to test and improve visitors football proficiency.

Amsterdam Arena Tours
While the museum of the famous Amsterdam football club A.F.C. Ajax moved to Amsterdam city centre in 2011, and thoroughly modernized became a tourist attraction known as Ajax Experience, guided tours of the Ajax ArenA stadium in the South East (Zuid Oost) suburb of Amsterdam, remained popular among the club’s fans. Visiting the stadium you may feel the fever of the matches played there.

Brilmuseum – National Museum of Spectacles
In an old town house (dating from 1620), at one of the narrow streets in the very centre of Amsterdam, an interesting small museum has been located focused on just one object: the spectacles. If you are interested in the history of fashion or the spectacles in particular – this is your chance, because the collection is rich, the old house impressive and the Brilmuseum presentation remarkable. Location: Gasthiusmolensteeg 7

Diamond Museum
A small and elegant museum organized by an important Amsterdam trader in these precious stones – Coster Diamonds. An interesting exhibit has been visualized by all modern multimedia means. Diamond Museum is conveniently located in a direct proximity of Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum.
Location: Paulus Potterstraat 8, The museum quarter.

Baantjer Museum in Amsterdam
A small museum in the cellar of the popular café Heffer, in the Red Light District, dedicated to a former police inspector and a popular Dutch writer of detective novels Albert Cornelis Baantjer. Baantjer novels were translated to many languages and adapted to film and TV.
Location: Warmoesstraat 66

Dutch Funeral Museum - Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover
One of the newest Amsterdam museums is also one of the most original: located at the municipal Amsterdam cemetery and crematorium De Nieuwe Ooster museum, has death and sorrow as its subject. The Funeral Museum Tot Zover, which we may translate as “For So Far” or “For So Long”, tries to show us how we can deal with death, memory of the people who are gone and human funerary rituals in the context of different religions and traditions.
Location: Kruislaan 124

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