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Museums

Museum
SPUISTRAAT NIEUWE GELDERSEKADE 5
Willet-
ZIJDE
Holthuysen
ROZENGRACHT RAADHU I SSTRAAT DAM WARMOESSTR. Like the Museum
NIEUW-
JORDAAN SPUISTRAAT OUDE 1 km Van Loon, the Willet-
MARKT
Holthuysen offers a
Prinsengracht Keizersgracht Herengracht SPUI ROKIN KLOVENIERSBURGWAL ZIJDE fascinating glimpse
inside a grand canal
house – and into the lives
PLEIN
Singel
R OKIN
SINGEL AMSTEL WATERLOO MR VISSER- of the wealthy merchants
Lijnbaansgracht
LEIDSESTRAAT REMBRANDT- PLEIN who lived there. Originally
PLEIN
built in 1685, the interior
VIJZELSTRAAT UTRECHTSESTR. AMSTEL AMSTEL ornate 18th-century
MARNIXSTR.
LEIDSE- Amstel is now decorated in an
PLEIN
style. A mild sense of
melancholy pervades
STADHOU D E RSKADE
the building (see p111).
FREDERIKS-
PLEIN
WETERINGSCHANS
HOBBEMAKADE S TAD H O UDERSKADE 0 metres 500 6
STRAAT
HOBBEMA
WETERINGSCHANS
Anne Frank
House
MUSEUM-
PLEIN 0 yards 500 This world-famous yet
movingly simple museum
Rijksmuseum
1 is dedicated to the young diarist who
The world’s greatest collection hid here with her family in “the
of 17th-century Dutch art, together Secret Annex” from the Nazis during
with pieces from the Middle Ages to World War II (see pp38–9).
the 20th century, are housed in this
great art museum (see pp16–19).
Van Gogh Museum
2
The permanent home for
hundreds of works by this troubled
artist also displays work by his
contemporaries (see pp20–23).
Amsterdam Museum
3
First a convent, then the
city orphanage, now a wonderfully
informative museum charting the
history of Amsterdam and, in
particular, its meteoric rise during
the Golden Age (see pp30–33).
Museum Ons’ Lieve
4
Heer op Solder
The 17th-century domestic interiors
would be fascinating in themselves,
but the astonishing thing about this
historic canal house is the secret
Catholic church hidden on its upper
floors, one of many clandestine
churches built in Amsterdam after
the Alteration (see pp24–5). Anne Frank House
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