La Amsterdam city attracts hundreds of visitors for many reasons, from its canals to its coffee shops, the famous Red Light District or its lifestyle. But this city is also a very cultural place where you can find many museums to visit and where you can discover incredible art objects. If you like this type of visit, you cannot miss this city, where there are a large number of museums.
The Amsterdam museums are very varied and some are really famous, like the Van Gogh Museum. So you can enjoy a few cultural visits that fill your knowledge of art a little more. It is always interesting to visit the museums that offer us part of the culture of the area.
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum is one of the most important and famous in Amsterdam. In this museum we find the largest collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. It is a large museum that houses up to seven million works, so it may take us a while to visit. However, there are some that are much more important than others.s like Rembrandt's 'Night Watch', 'The Milkmaid' by Vermeer or 'The Merry Drinker' by Frans Hals. In the collections we can also see pieces of Egyptian or Asian art. The museum building is very similar to Amsterdam Central Station because it was created by the same designer.
Museo Van Gogh
The Van Gogh Museum is the second most famous museum in Amsterdam and the second most visited. Another essential if we go to the city. If we are fans of the paintings of the Dutchman here we will enjoy a lot, since we can find up to 200 works by the artist. You can also see his drawings and some letters. He was an artist plagued by a mental illness that ultimately led him to take his own life. He only sold one painting in his life, although he later became very famous. It is located a few meters from the Rijksmuseum, so there are two visits that can be done on the same day.
Anne Frank House
Everyone knows the 'Diary of Anne Frank' book and its history. The story of a Jewish girl who had to live through the Nazi era and who would eventually die in a concentration camp, leaving a diary that was later found by her father and published. In Amsterdam we can find a house that is part of history that tells in the newspaper, the house in which she and her family hid so as not to be captured by the Nazis. We will be able to see what that house was like and even the secret door through which it was passed to its hiding place.
Rembrandt Museum
Rembrandt bought this house by becoming a successful artist. He is a master of the pictorial technique and in this house he painted and received other artists, so it is part of his history and the history of painting. In 1639 he took over the house and in 1656 he had to auction his belongings because he was full of debts. At present we find a fully restored house, with period furniture and where we can see the studio where he painted.
Van Loon Museum
If you are interested in historical things, this museum is an XNUMXth century house. At the bottom there are some explanations about the history and the type of house it was. We will learn a little about the history of the house of the prestigious Van Loon family. We will know what the furniture was like and also that there were some secret doors to pass from one room to another without being seen.
Nemo Science Museum
This is a museum of the Science and technology, the most important in Holland. That is why it is a good visit, especially if we go as a family. The building consists of five floors in which we can learn a lot and even do the odd experiment. Next to this museum we can see a beautiful replica of a ship from the East India Company.