Amsterdam Museums
from Amsterdam Web Guide

ABOVE: Inside the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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Museums/attractions

Allard Pierson Museum
Egyptian, Greek, and Roman artifacts are the main draws here. The remodeled Egyptian rooms have scale models of the pyramids and a temple, plus a computer that prints the visitor's name in hieroglyphics.

Amsterdam Historical Museum
A former orphanage houses the city museum, which shows "how Amsterdam grew from a small medieval town to a world-famous center."

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Anne Frank House
The late teenage diarist has become a symbol of 20th Century Amsterdam. This page describes the girl, her house, her diary, and educational programs sponsored by the Anne Frank House, where waiting lines can be long on weekends or during vacation periods. This badly-behaved site will open in a new browser window.

Artis
Live animals aren't the only stars in Europe's oldest zoo. The park also houses a planetarium, a geological museum, and a zoological museum.

Biblical Museum
See old Bibles displayed in two old houses that date back to 1662.

Defence Line of Amsterdam
Amsterdam is surrounded by a 135km (84-mile) ring of forts and artillery sites that were built between 1883 and 1920. The defenses were augmented with canals and locks that allowed temporary flooding of selected areas.

De Oude Kerk
The Old Church is Amsterdam's oldest, and today it's a center for organ concerts and cultural activities in the town center. See the church's Web site for opening times and a concert schedule.

Electric Ladyland
The "first museum of fluorescent art" offer gallery-style exhibits, participatory art, and exhibits of fluorescent minerals, fluorescence in astronomy, etc. It's a five-minute walk from the Anne Frank House.

Museum Amstelkring
Visit a restored 17th Century house with period rooms and a church in the attic. (You can even rent the church for your wedding and have a reception downstairs.)

Rembrandt House Museum
The 17th Century house where Rembrandt once painted is now used to display his etchings and a few of his copper etching plates. This badly-behaved site will open in a new browser window.

Stedelijk Museum
The most important museum of modern art in the Netherlands has a large permanent collection by Chagall, Mondrian, Picasso, and De Kooning, and other artists of the past century. (Click the "English" link on the home page if you don't read Dutch.) This badly-behaved site will open in a new browser window.

Van Gogh Museum
Take a real or virtual stroll through the museum, which has the largest collection of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh in the world. (The museum's building is fully accessible, and you can borrow a wheelchair or bring your own.)

Out of town:

Cruiquius
Visit a restored 150-year-old pumping station that was once used to drain a polder at the rate of 25,000 liters a second. It's located in Halfweg, a village halfway between Amsterdam and Haarlem.

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