Amsterdam Museum

Amsterdam Museum is a real meeting place for anyone who wants to learn more about the city.

Amsterdam: a world city? Yes, but also small, quaint and strong-minded. Home to Johan Cruijff, Rembrandt, Ajax, the Red Light District, the Dutch East India Company and marijuana. The capital of the Netherlands. A 1000-year-old trading city that has a special relationship with water and a strong focus on entrepreneurship, creativity, citizenship and free-thinking. In the monumental Amsterdam Museum building you will discover the story of Amsterdam through a large number of masterpieces, such as an aerial map from the Middle Ages, Breitner's The Dam and a lesson on anatomy from Rembrandt. See, read about, hear and experience how the city has developed in the Amsterdam Museum.

Amsterdam DNA
The Amsterdam DNA presentation offers a captivating, one-hour overview of the history of Amsterdam on the basis of interactive images, sounds, movement and specially selected objects.

For the children
Het Kleine Weeshuis is an attraction for children from the age of 4 to 12 This interactive presentation allows children and their parents to learn all about life in a 17th century orphanage.

The building
Since 1975 the Amsterdam Museum has been located in a spectacular building on the Kalverstraat, where in the Middle Ages Saint Lucien's Monastery was situated and in 1578 the City Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis) was established. The orphanage was home to thousands of children between 1580 and 1960, many of whom had lost their parents to the plague. The children also received an education here: the older boys attended school elsewhere in the city, while the girls received instruction within the orphanage and were trained in domestic skills. In memory of the time of the orphanage, the Regents' Room (Regentenkamer) and orphans' cupboards in the inner courtyard have been left intact and The Small Orphanage (Het Kleine Weeshuis), a family presentation where you can find out all about the world of Amsterdam's orphans, was established. The boys’ and girls' inner courtyards, where boys and girls played separately, also originate from that time.

The City Guard Gallery
The City Guard Gallery (Schuttersgalerij), a covered street leading from Begijnensteeg to the museum, is one of the few freely accessible 'museum streets' in the world. Original group portraits, made between 1530 and 2007 by artists such as Bartholomeus van der Helst and Erwin Olaf, hang in the gallery. Even Goliath can be found here: our world famous 350-year-old wooden giant.

And also
The Amsterdam Museum regularly organises temporary exhibitions, guided tours and events.

The Amsterdam Museum has two entrances: Kalverstraat 92 and Sint Luciënsteeg 27.