Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Leidsebosje is a public park in Amsterdam-West.

Wikipedia: Leidsebosje (NL)

The Tree Sawyer, or The Sawyer, is a small inconspicuous sculpture in the Leidsebosje in Amsterdam. The sculpture consists of a male sawing in a thick overhanging branch; Until October 2019, he did so in the southernmost plane tree. He does so bending over, between his legs.

Wikipedia: Boomzagertje (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)

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 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 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It consists of a small museum about the chess career and the life of the Dutch world champion Max Euwe (1901-1981) and a meeting centre annex library with about eleven thousand books and magazines.

Wikipedia: Max Euwe Centrum (NL), 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 Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010. The Amsterdam Canal District consists of the area around the city's four main canals: the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht, and the Prinsengracht. From the Brouwersgracht, the canals are generally parallel with one another, leading gradually southeast into the Amstel river.

Wikipedia: Grachtengordel (EN), Website

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

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 Six Collection is the common name for the Six family's patrimony, which, in addition to family portraits, includes the family archive and art and antiques relating 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

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)

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

Wikipedia: Diamantbeurs (Amsterdam) (NL)

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 term 'painting', 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 Lau Mazirel Bridge is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Lau Mazirelbrug (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 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)

The Works of Mercy is a sculpture group in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: De werken van barmhartigheid (beeldengroep) (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 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 restored to their 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

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

Hollandsche Schouwburg is a museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Hollandsche Schouwburg (EN), Website

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 Amsterdam's Artis Zoo. In the garden is a memorial by sculptor Bart van Hove.

Wikipedia: Hollandse Tuin (Artis) (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)

The Hunger Winter is a war memorial on the Eastern Islands in the centre of Amsterdam. It deals with the hunger winter of 1944/1945.

Wikipedia: De hongerwinter (NL)

The Muiderpoort in Amsterdam is a city gate on the 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)