Sights & Attractions in Amsterdam

Worth Noting

Name	Category	Location

ARCAM Architecture Centrum Amsterdam is dedicated to promoting modern...	Museums / Galleries	Waterfront

Bijbels Museum Although this museum does indeed have a massive collection of...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Damrak This unavoidable and busy street leading up to Centraal Station...	Neighborhoods / Streets	Old City Center

Eden Amsterdam American Hotel This landmark was designed by Willem Kromhout in 1902. He grafted...	Hotels	Jordaan and Leidseplein

Erotic Museum "Five floors of highly suggestive trinkets and photos" is probably...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center


Felix Meritis Cultural Center The recently restored home of the former Felix Meritus Society...	Architectural Sites	Western Canal Ring

FOAM Dutch photographers such as Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Gassan Diamonds By the beginning of the 18th century, Amsterdam had a virtual...	Industrial Sites	Jewish Quarter

Haarlemmerpoort This Neoclassical gatehouse, rebuilt in 1840, was one of four...	Architectural Sites	Waterfront

Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum One would think that more effort could have gone into the name...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Het West-Indisch Huis These former headquarters of the Dutch West India Company (WIC)...	Architectural Sites	Waterfront

Hollandsche Schouwburg From 1892 to 1941, this was a popular theater staging Dutch plays...	Memorials / Monuments	East of the Amstel

Homomonument This, the world's first memorial to persecuted gays and lesbians...	Memorials / Monuments	Western Canal Ring

Huis Marseille This cutting-edge, contemporary photography museum is housed...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Madame Tussauds Amsterdam This branch of the world-famous wax museum, above the Peek &...	Museums / Galleries	Old City Center

Montelbaanstoren Rembrandt loved to sketch this slightly leaning redbrick tower...	Military Sites	Jewish Quarter

Mozes en Aäronkerk Landmarking the eastern corner of the Waterlooplein flea market...	Religious Sites	Jewish Quarter

Munttoren This tower received its name in 1672, when French troops occupied...	Military Sites	Eastern Canal Ring

Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis Don't miss this canal-house museum with an unusual entrance on...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Just 200 meters from Centraal Station and built on a peninsula...	Arts / Performance Venues	Waterfront

Nes Nes is a refreshingly quiet corridor filled with theaters and...	Neighborhoods / Streets	Old City Center

NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies Established in 1945, this institute has collected vast archives...	Libraries	Western Canal Ring

Oudemanhuispoort Landmarked by its famous chiseled pair of spectacles set over...	Architectural Sites	Old City Center

Pijpenkabinet Considering Amsterdam's rich history of tobacco trading and its...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring

Realeneiland About a dozen blocks to the west of Centraal Station, there are...	Neighborhoods / Streets	Waterfront

Rembrandtplein Smaller than the Leidseplein, this touristy square (which used...	Neighborhoods / Streets	Eastern Canal Ring

Sarphatipark This miniature Bois de Boulogne was built by and named after...	Parks	The Pijp

Scheepvaarthuis With its extravagantly phantasmagoric zinc-roof detailing spilling...	Architectural Sites	Waterfront

St. Nicolaaskerk The architect A. C. Bleys designed this church, built in 1887...	Religious Sites	Old City Center

Stadsschouwburg After burning down and being rebuilt several more times, the...	Architectural Sites	Jordaan and Leidseplein

Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Housed in a building from 1664, this unusual museum has the largest...	Museums / Galleries	Eastern Canal Ring

Tropenmuseum The country's largest anthropological museum was first built...	Museums / Galleries	East of the Amstel

Vakbondsmuseum The history of Dutch trade unions may not seem especially scintillating...	Museums / Galleries	East of the Amstel

Werfmuseum 't Kromhout Started in 1757 by Doede Jansen Kromhout, a ship's carpenter...	Museums / Galleries	Waterfront

Westerpark Just beyond the Jordaan is one of contemporary Amsterdam's most...	Parks	Waterfront

Woonbootmuseum There are around 2,250 houseboats in Amsterdam (and one especially...	Museums / Galleries	Western Canal Ring
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