Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Number of sights 41 sights
Distance 11 km
Ascend 162 m
Descend 158 m

Experience Amsterdam in Netherlands in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in AmsterdamIndividual Sights in Amsterdam

Sight 1: OCCII

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The OCCII is a venue for alternative and independent music at Amstelveenseweg 134, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Wikipedia: OCCII (EN), Website

679 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Cascade

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Cascade or Écriture sur l'eau is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-Zuid, Vondelpark.

Wikipedia: Cascade Vondelpark (NL)

260 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Oprichtersbank

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The Jubilee Bench Vondelpark or Founder's Bench is applied art in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam-Zuid.

Wikipedia: Jubileumbank Vondelpark (NL)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Figure découpée

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Figure découpée or L'oiseau is an abstract sculpture by Pablo Picasso: there are a total of three Figure découpée sculptures. There is one located in Vondelpark NL, another on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and another is in Helsingborg Sweden. The sculpture is a depiction of a bird, but it is commonly referred to as flat bird, flat fish or fish statue.

Wikipedia: Figure découpée (EN)

523 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Mama Baranka (Moeder Rots)

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Mama Baranka is an artistic work of art in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam-Zuid, in memory of the death of Kerwin Duinmeijer. The sculpture is an initiative of Fundashon Antiano Amsterdam. The municipality of Amsterdam was willing to contribute 75,000 guilders to the costs; the other half had to be raised by private individuals. The statue would eventually cost 120,000 guilders.

Wikipedia: Mama Baranka (NL), Website, Url

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Naked figure

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Nude Figure, also known as Girl or Standing Nude, is the title of a sculpture in Amsterdam's Vondelpark.

Wikipedia: Naaktfiguur (NL)

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Villa Betty

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Villa Betty

Overtoom 241 in Amsterdam, known as Villa Betty, is a national monument in Amsterdam-West (Oud-West). It is located in a garden between Overtoom and Vondelpark and is closer to the park than to the road.

Wikipedia: Overtoom 241, Amsterdam (NL)

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Orgelpark

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The Orgelpark is an art center in Amsterdam where the organ is central. It opened on 20 January 2007.

Wikipedia: Orgelpark (NL), Website

385 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Dutch Equestrian School Museum Hollandsche Manege

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Dutch Equestrian School Museum Hollandsche Manege bMA / Attribution

The Hollandsche Manege in Amsterdam is the oldest riding school in the Netherlands, dating back to 1744. The current building, inspired by the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, was constructed in 1882.

Wikipedia: Hollandsche Manege (EN), Website

769 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: Leidsebosje

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The Leidsebosje is a park in Amsterdam-West.

Wikipedia: Leidsebosje (NL)

45 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Zagertje

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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)

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: DeLaMar

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DeLaMar

DeLaMar is a theatre near Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with two auditoriums containing 601 and 939 seats. It is currently in use for musicals, plays and cabaret.

Wikipedia: DeLaMar (EN), Website

282 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: The Milky Way

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The Milky Way DigiDaan / CC BY-SA 4.0

Melkweg is a music venue and cultural center on Lijnbaansgracht, near Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is housed in a former dairy and includes four music halls as well as a cinema, a restaurant and an exhibition space. It is operated by a nonprofit organisation founded in 1970.

Wikipedia: Melkweg (EN), Website

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Leidseplein

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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)

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: De Balie

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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

77 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Gedenksteen

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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)

25 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Max Euwe Centrum

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Max Euwe Centrum

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

334 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: P.C. Hooft

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The Bust P.C. Hooft is an artistic work of art in Amsterdam-Zuid.

Wikipedia: Borstbeeld P.C. Hooft (NL)

202 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Rijksmuseum

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The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.

Wikipedia: Rijksmuseum (EN), Website

544 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 20: Deutzenhofje

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Deutzenhofje bMA / Attribution

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)

377 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 21: foam

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Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located on Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documentary, art and fashion. Next to large exhibitions by well-known photographers, Foam also shows the work of young and upcoming photographers, in shorter running exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (EN), Website

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: cats museum

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cats museum

The KattenKabinet is an art museum in Amsterdam devoted to works depicting cats. The museum collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Corneille, Sal Meijer, Théophile Steinlen, Ed van der Elsken and Jože Ciuha, among others.

Wikipedia: KattenKabinet (EN), Website

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Mint Tower

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Mint Tower The original uploader was P.H. Louw at Dutch Wikipedia. / CC BY 2.5 nl

The Munttoren or Munt is a tower in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It stands on the busy Muntplein square, where the Amstel river and the Singel canal meet, near the flower market and the eastern end of the Kalverstraat shopping street.

Wikipedia: Munttoren (EN)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: De Kleine Komedie

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De Kleine Komedie

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

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 25: Rembrandt van Rijn statue

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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)

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Willet-Holthuysen

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Willet-Holthuysen

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

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Collectie Six

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Collectie Six

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

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 28: Magere Brug

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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)

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 29: Fete galante

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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)

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument

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Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument Christian Michelides / CC BY-SA 4.0

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

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 31: De werken van barmhartigheid

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

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

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 32: H'ART Museum

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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

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 33: Dutch National Opera & Ballet

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Dutch National Opera & Ballet is a theatre in Amsterdam that was specially built for performing operas, ballets and other forms of musical theatre.

Wikipedia: Nationale Opera en Ballet (NL), Website

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 34: Mozes en Aäronkerk

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The Moses and Aaron Church in the Waterlooplein neighborhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is officially the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua. Originally a clandestine church, it was operated by Franciscan priests at a house on Jodenbreestraat, where the wall tablets of Moses and Aaron hung on the wall. In 1970, the present church was designated as a Cultural Heritage Monument of the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Mozes en Aäronkerk (EN), Website

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 35: Jewish Museum

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Jewish Museum Original uploader was Eriksw at nl.wikipedia / Attribution

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

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 36: De Dokwerker

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The Dockworker is a statue and monument on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam in memory of the February strike of 1941.

Wikipedia: De Dokwerker (NL)

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 37: Hortus Botanicus

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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

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 38: Hortusplantsoen

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Hortusplantsoen

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)

659 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 39: Entrepotdok

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Entrepotdok

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)

645 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 40: Oosterkerk

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Oosterkerk P.H. Louw / CC BY 2.5

The Oosterkerk is a 17th-Century Dutch Reformed church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Oosterkerk, Amsterdam (EN), Website

67 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 41: De hongerwinter

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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)

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