Best Museums in Netherlands
Netherlands is home to 12 world-class museums across 6 cities, from ancient art and archaeology to modern and contemporary collections.
All Museums in Netherlands
Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum
The national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history.
Founded 1800
Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
Holds the largest collection of Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world, on Amsterdam's Museumplein.
Founded 1973
Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam's museum of modern and contemporary art and design, with its iconic 'bathtub' extension.
Founded 1895
Amsterdam
H'ART Museum Amsterdam
Amsterdam's grand exhibition house on the Amstel, with rotating shows from major international partner museums.
Founded 2009
Amsterdam
Anne Frank House
The canal-side house and Secret Annex where Anne Frank wrote her diary in hiding from 1942 to 1944.
Founded 1960
Amsterdam
Rembrandt House Museum
The seventeenth-century house where Rembrandt lived and worked from 1639 to 1658, restored to its original state.
Founded 1911
Amsterdam
Royal Palace Amsterdam
A seventeenth-century town hall on Dam Square, transformed into a royal palace by Louis Bonaparte.
Founded 1808
The Hague
Mauritshuis
An intimate Dutch Golden Age picture gallery in a seventeenth-century mansion in the Binnenhof.
Founded 1822
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
A nationally important art museum and one of Europe's largest sculpture parks, set deep in the Hoge Veluwe National Park.
Founded 1938
Rotterdam
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam's leading art museum, currently closed for renovation while its mirrored Depot remains open.
Founded 1849
Haarlem
Frans Hals Museum
The world's most extensive collection of paintings by Frans Hals, in a seventeenth-century almshouse in Haarlem.
Founded 1862
Groningen
Groninger Museum
A landmark Memphis-Group inspired building floating in Groningen's Verbindingskanaal.
Founded 1874