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A’DAM Tower and Lookout
A’DAM TorenThe A’DAM Tower stands on the bank of the IJ in Amsterdam North. The building was constructed for Shell and was known as Toren Overhoeks. The A’DAM LOOKOUT observat…
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Albert Cuyp Market
Albert CuypmarktThe Albert Cuyp Market is held on Albert Cuypstraat in the De Pijp neighbourhood. The street and the market are named after Albert Cuyp, a seventeenth-century Dutch…
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Amsterdam Canal Ring
GrachtengordelThe Canal Ring is the part of central Amsterdam that extends along the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht and the Prinsengracht. The canals, streets, quays,…
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Anne Frank House
Anne Frank HuisThe Anne Frank House is a biographical museum in central Amsterdam. It stands on Prinsengracht, near the Westerkerk. The museum preserves the annex that served as a…
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ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo
ARTISARTIS is a zoo and botanical garden in central Amsterdam. It was founded in 1838 under the name Natura Artis Magistra. It is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands.
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Begijnhof
The Begijnhof is a historic courtyard in Amsterdam that once housed a community of beguines. Houses and two churches stand around the courtyard. Many of the houses…
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Eye Film Museum
Eye FilmmuseumEye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum and screening venue in Amsterdam. It is based in Overhoeks. The institution preserves and presents films from the Netherlan…
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Jewish Cultural Quarter
Joods Cultureel KwartierThe Jewish Cultural Quarter is an Amsterdam organisation that brings together the Jewish Museum, the Portuguese Synagogue, the Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Nation…
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Jordaan
The Jordaan is a neighbourhood in the centre of Amsterdam. The Prinsengracht marks its eastern boundary and the Singelgracht marks the western one. The Brouwersgrac…
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National Maritime Museum
Het ScheepvaartmuseumThe National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam occupies a former naval warehouse designed by Daniël Stalpaert. The collection includes maps, paintings and model ships. A…
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NEMO Science Museum
NEMO is a science museum in Amsterdam. Its building in the Oosterdok was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 1997. The museum presents interactive science exhibit…
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Oude Kerk
The Oude Kerk is the oldest parish church in Amsterdam. It stands in De Wallen, on Oudekerksplein. It was consecrated in 1306 as a Catholic church with Saint Nichol…
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Rembrandt House Museum
Museum RembrandthuisRembrandt van Rijn lived and worked in this house on Jodenbreestraat between 1639 and 1658. The museum recreates his home and studio using the inventory of his poss…
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Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of art and history of the Netherlands. On Museumplein, Pierre Cuypers’s building brings together Dutch collections from diffe…
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Royal Palace of Amsterdam
Koninklijk Paleis AmsterdamThe Royal Palace occupies the western side of Dam Square, next to the Nieuwe Kerk. The building began as a town hall in the seventeenth century. Louis Bonaparte tur…
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
On Museumplein, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam brings together modern art, contemporary art and design. Adriaan Willem Weissman’s nineteenth-century building connec…
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STRAAT Museum
STRAAT Museum is devoted to street art and graffiti in Amsterdam. It is in the NDSM area. It opened on 9 October 2020 in a former welding hall.
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Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum occupies two buildings next to Museumplein. It brings together paintings, drawings and letters by Vincent van Gogh, as well as works by other ar…
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Vondelpark
Vondelpark is a public park in Amsterdam. It opened in 1865 under the name Nieuwe Park. It was later named after the poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel.
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