Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel

Amsterdam Museum aan de Amstel

Since March 2022, the Amsterdam Museum can be found on the Amstel, in the building of the Hermitage. During a large-scale renovation of the monumental Burgerweeshuis, the Amsterdam Museum will find its temporary home here. With a completely new range of exhibitions, public programmes and children's activities. Here, the Amsterdam Museum will display an entirely new collection presentation that, besides the traditional history of Amsterdam, also offers plenty of space for dissenting voices and lesser-known and more recent histories of the city. 

Exhibitions
Temporary exhibitions also give the floor to residents and lovers of the city to show 'their Amsterdam'. With well-known objects from the collection and new or less well-known works, the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel will show you that there is no single history of the city. 

Panorama Amsterdam
In the permanent chronological presentation: Panorama Amsterdam, well-known and unknown stories about, and perspectives on, Amsterdam's past give an impression of how Amsterdam has formed and is still developing. Here you will see over 250 objects that give you a multifaceted picture of the many histories of the city of Amsterdam. Classic icons from the city collection by Lingelbach and Rembrandt alongside artists such as Raquel Haver, Natasja Kensmil and Brian Elstak. 

The Willet-Holthuysen House 

The imposing Willet-Holthuysen House stands in the centre of Amsterdam. The double mansion on the Herengracht has many period rooms. There are salons in Neo-Lodewijk XVI style and the garden is designed as a symmetrical French style garden. In the romantic rooms with historic interiors, we show exhibitions with work by contemporary makers and collectors. 

Abraham Willet and Louisa Holthuysen The house takes its name from the married couple who lived there at the end of the 19th century, Abraham Willet and Louisa Holthuysen. They collected a large amount of art and objects, and also designed the period rooms. Even then, such splendor was considered a reminder of the Romantic past. The period rooms were the perfect way for the couple to share their taste and wealth with others. Upon their deaths, the couple left their collection and house behind with the intention that it would be turned into a museum. More than a hundred years later, the Willet-Holthuysen House is still open to the public. It currently serves as an additional location of the Amsterdam Museum.