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Children’s Attractions

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HAARLEMMER
HOUTTUINEN
Het IJ
NASSAUKADE MARNIXSTRAAT PRI N S HENDRIKKADE IJhaven
VAN HALLSTRAAT
DE RUIJTERKA DE
Centraal
JAN VAN GALEN- JORDAAN SPUISTRAA T ZIJDE Station PIET HEINKADE
NIEUWE
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OUD WEST ROZENGRACHT ROKIN
DE CLERCQSTR. NASSAUKADE PR I NS EN GR AC H T S I N GEL OUDE PLANTAGE
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WITTENBURGERGRACHT
VIJZELGRACHT AMSTEL U TR ECHTSEST RAA T Amstel WEESPERSTRAAT Artis OOST
M AURIT S KADE
BILDERDIJK STRAAT
OVERTOOM C. HUYGENSSTR. LINNAEUSSTRAAT
MUSEUM- WIBAUTSTR. OOSTERPARK
2 km OUD ZUID PLEIN STA D H OUDERSKADE
The Little Orphanage
Tram Rides
1 3
Visitors to The Little
Electrische Museumtramlijn:
Orphanage children’s exhibition at Haarlemmermeer station,
the Amsterdam Museum can Amstelveenseweg 264 • 020 673 7538
experience what life was like in a • Trams depart Easter–Oct:
17th-century orphanage. Children 11am–5:30pm Sun • Admission
are sent on engaging quests to find charge • www.museumtramlijn.org
hidden animals, or discover more Go to Haarlemmermeer railway
about an orphan boy called station and then take a 20-minute
Jurriaan (see pp30–33). ride in an old-fashioned tram with
wooden seats, clanging
Tropenmuseum
2 bell and friendly
Learn about
conductor to
the cultural Amsterdamse Bos,
diver sity of where you will find
Africa, or pore pancakes, peacocks, and
over Dutch plenty of leg -stretching space.
colonial history
NEMO
in this museum 4
dedicated to It’s worth going to the
ethnography and science and technology centre for
contemporary art. the building alone – dubbed “Titanic”
Tropenmuseum – and for the superb views you can
Junior, the “hands- get from the top deck. Inside,
on” museum for enquiring minds will be kept
children aged 6 alert with experiments and
to 13, is open by demonstrations (see p128).
appointment, with
Artis Royal Zoo
tours in Dutch, or 5
English tours by Children love this action-
special request packed zoo, where they can pat the
(see p127). Tropenmuseum animals in the children’s farm, brave
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