Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Muiderpoort in Amsterdam is a city gate on Alexanderplein, at the intersection of the Plantage Middenlaan and the Sarphatistraat. The gate was part of the fortifications of Amsterdam. On either side of the gate are bridge 264 and bridge 265. It is a national monument.

Wikipedia: Muiderpoort (Amsterdam) (NL)

The Monument to the Artists' Resistance 1940-1945 is an artistic work of art and monument in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Monument voor het kunstenaarsverzet 1940-1945 (NL)

The Groote Museum is a museum on the Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam that explores the connection between humans, animals, plants, microbes and the earth. It is located on the first floor of the former main building of Artis and is managed by Artis, but can be visited independently of the zoo.

Wikipedia: Groote Museum (Artis) (NL), Website, Opening Hours

Micropia is a museum in Amsterdam based on the idea of distributing information about microbes, which are often associated with illness and disease despite their essential function in the daily functioning of human life. The museum opened on 30 September 2014. It claims to be the first of its kind.

Wikipedia: Micropia (museum) (EN), Website

The Dutch garden is a 19th-century monumental garden within the Amsterdam Zoo Artis. In the garden is a memorial by sculptor Bart van Hove.

Wikipedia: Hollandse Tuin (Artis) (NL)

Natura Artis Magistra, commonly known just as Artis, is a zoo and botanical garden in the centre of Amsterdam. It is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and fifth oldest zoo in the world.

Wikipedia: Artis (zoo) (EN), Website

The Resistance Museum is a museum located in the Plantage neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Dutch Resistance Museum, chosen as the best historical museum of the Netherlands, aims to tell the story of the Dutch people in World War II. From 14 May 1940 to 5 May 1945, the Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany.

Wikipedia: Verzetsmuseum (EN), Website

Hollandsche Schouwburg is a museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Hollandsche Schouwburg (EN), Website

The Zeeman Laboratory is a former physics laboratory at Plantage Muidergracht, number 4, in the Dutch town of Amsterdam. The laboratory, which belonged to the University of Amsterdam, was completed as Laboratory Physics in 1923 and was designed by Abel Antoon Kok for the Public Works Department of the Municipality of Amsterdam. The laboratory, for which Prof. Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) had worked intensively, put an end to the lack of space in the previously built physics laboratory at Plantage Muidergracht 6 and was also specially equipped for the accurate magnetic and optical experiments that were carried out in Zeeman's group. To this end, a number of vibration-free tables were set up, the largest of which had a mass of 250,000 kg and was intended for the lattice that the American physicist H A. Rowland had engraved especially for Zeeman. In 1940, the institute was given the name of Zeeman.

Wikipedia: Zeemanlaboratorium (NL)

The Lau Mazirel Bridge is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Lau Mazirelbrug (NL)

The Diamond Exchange is a former diamond exchange, located on the Weesperplein, corner Nieuwe Achtergracht, in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Diamantbeurs (Amsterdam) (NL)

The Royal Theater Carré is a Neo-Renaissance theatre in Amsterdam, located near the river Amstel. When the theatre was founded in 1887, it was originally meant as a permanent circus building. Currently, it is mainly used for musicals, cabaret performances and pop concerts. Carré is located next to the Amstel, close to Waterlooplein. Its address is Amstel 115 and has approximately 1,700 seats.

Wikipedia: Royal Theater Carré (EN)

The Magere Brug is a bridge over the river Amstel in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It connects the banks of the river at Kerkstraat, between the Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht.

Wikipedia: Magere Brug (EN)

Fête galante is a sculpture by Hans van den Ban from 1997, which is placed along the Weesperstraat and Nieuwe Kerkstraat in Amsterdam-Centrum. The title is said to refer to the painting term, in which pleasure is the main element. The playfulness was necessary because of the sleek housing and office blocks that arose here after a thorough redevelopment of the neighborhood. Initially, a row of trees was to be built here, but in the end it was not placed.

Wikipedia: Fête galante (Van den Ban) (NL)

The National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam) (Dutch: Holocaust Namenmonument) is since 2021 the Dutch national memorial for the Holocaust and the Porajmos at Amsterdam. It commemorates the approximately 102,000 Jewish victims from the Netherlands who were arrested by the Nazi regime during the German occupation of the country (1940-1945), deported and mostly murdered in the Auschwitz and Sobibor death camps, as well as 220 Roma and Sinti victims.

Wikipedia: National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam) (EN), Website

The Works of Mercy is a sculpture group in Amsterdam-Centrum.

Wikipedia: De werken van barmhartigheid (beeldengroep) (NL)

The Hortusplantsoen is a park and street in the center of Amsterdam. The park is located on the south side of the Hortus Botanicus, between the Nieuwe Herengracht and the Nieuwe Keizersgracht. In the Hortus tunnel under the Weesperstraat, which belongs to the Nieuwe Herengracht, there is an entrance to the Waterlooplein metro station.

Wikipedia: Hortusplantsoen (NL)

Hortus Botanicus is a botanical garden in the Plantage district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is one of the world's oldest botanical gardens.

Wikipedia: Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam) (EN), Website

The Auschwitz Memorial is a Dutch memorial in the Wertheim Park in Amsterdam in memory of those who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp and the other concentration and extermination camps.

Wikipedia: Auschwitzmonument (Amsterdam) (NL), Memorial Website

The Wertheimpark is a city park in the Plantagebuurt in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Wertheimpark (NL)

The Entrepotdok, formerly Nieuwe Rapenburgergracht, is a canal in Amsterdam, and a street and row of former warehouses with the same name along the northeast side of the canal. They were constructed between 1708 and 1829, used for storage, squatted in the 1990s and are now converted into apartments. Entrepotdok is the largest inhabited warehouse complex in Amsterdam. The canal runs between the Kadijksplein and Sarphatistraat, and is parallel to Hoogte Kadijk, Laagte Kadijk, Plantage Doklaan and Natura Artis Magistra zoo.

Wikipedia: Entrepotdok (EN)

Sirene is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-Centrum.

Wikipedia: Sirene (Nic. Jonk, Amsterdam) (NL)

The Jewish Museum in Amsterdam is a museum that highlights Jewish culture, religion, and history. Since 1987, the museum has been located on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in the heart of the old Jewish Quarter. The covered space between four synagogues that have been restored to an 18th-century state forms the entrance at Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1. The museum is part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.

Wikipedia: Joods Historisch Museum (NL), Website

H'ART Museum is an art museum located on the banks of the Amstel river in Amsterdam. Formerly a satellite of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, Russia, the museum cut ties with the Hermitage after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Wikipedia: H'ART Museum (EN), Website

The Blauwbrug is a historic bridge in Amsterdam, Netherlands over the river Amstel. It connects the Rembrandtplein area with the Waterlooplein area, and lies south to the Stopera.

Wikipedia: Blauwbrug (EN)

The Six Collection is the common name for the Six family's patrimony, which, in addition to the family portraits, includes the family archive and art and antique objects related to the family. The Six Foundation, the Stella Duce Foundation, the Jan Six Foundation and the Amstel 218 Foundation together form the Six Collection.

Wikipedia: Collectie Six (NL), Website

Museum Willet-Holthuysen is a located on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam famous ring of canals is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Wikipedia: Museum Willet-Holthuysen (EN), Website

The Rembrandt Monument is a 19th-century memorial in memory of the painter Rembrandt van Rijn on Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam. It is the oldest surviving statue in Amsterdam and was the first statue for a visual artist in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Rembrandtmonument (NL)

De Kleine Komedie is today the oldest theatre in Amsterdam, dating from 1788. Situated on the Amstel near the Halvemaansteeg, the building offers a stage for both upcoming and established Dutch talents. The theatre has 503 seats.

Wikipedia: De Kleine Komedie (EN), Website

The statue of Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, or Thorbecke Monument, is a 19th-century memorial in Amsterdam, in memory of the liberal politician Thorbecke.

Wikipedia: Standbeeld van Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (NL)

Street Art Frankey is a Dutch artist who wants to positively influence the streetscape with relatively small and often inconspicuous works of art.

Wikipedia: Street Art Frankey (NL)

The Amstelkerk is a Reformed church building in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the southern part of the Grachtengordel neighborhood, near the Amstel River, between the Prinsengracht, Reguliersgracht and Keizersgracht. The church was designed by Daniël Stalpaert and was originally intended as a wooden emergency church, erected to provide for church services in the fourth Golden Age extension of Amsterdam laid out in 1662, but it was never replaced by a more permanent building. The church was expanded several times starting in 1673 with annexes built of stone. The interior originally had a very modest appearance, but was replaced by a neogothic design by Hendrik Springer in 1842. In the early 19th century, plans were drawn up, but never executed, to build the Dutch Mint in the square next to church. The church was bought by Stadsherstel Amsterdam in the late 1980s, which completed renovations in 1990.

Wikipedia: Amstelkerk (EN), Website

Museum Van Loon is a museum located in a canalside house alongside the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum is named after the family Van Loon that lived in the house from the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Museum Van Loon (EN), Website

The Deutzen Hofje or Deutzenhofje is a 17th-century hofje on the Prinsengracht 857 in Amsterdam. It is the largest hofje built in the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Deutzen Hofje (EN)

The Memorial Stone for the former House of Detention, also known as the 4 May Memorial Stone, is a work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Gedenksteen voor het voormalig Huis van Bewaring (NL)

The Max Euwe Center (MEC) is a chess center on the Max Euweplein in Amsterdam. It consists of a small museum about the chess career and life of the Dutch world champion Max Euwe (1901-1981) and a meeting center and library with about eleven thousand books and magazines.

Wikipedia: Max Euwe Centrum (NL), Website

De Balie is a Dutch organization that produces independent journalistic programs about art, culture and politics. De Balie is located at Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, near Leidseplein in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: De Balie (EN), Website

The Tree Sawmill, Wood Sawmill or The Sawmill, is a small inconspicuous statue in the Leidsebosje in Amsterdam. The statue consists of a man sawing in a thick overhanging branch; Until October 2019, it did so in the southernmost plane tree. He does so bending over, between his legs.

Wikipedia: Boomzagertje (NL)

The Leidsebosje is a park in Amsterdam-West.

Wikipedia: Leidsebosje (NL)

Leidseplein is a square in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the Weteringschans neighborhood, immediately northeast of the Singelgracht. It is located on the crossroads of the Weteringschans, Marnixstraat and Leidsestraat.

Wikipedia: Leidseplein (EN)