Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Grachtengordel, known in English as the Canal District, 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

Amsterdam Oersoep is one of the largest artistic works of art in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Amsterdam Oersoep (NL)

The Multatuli Museum is a 17th-century museum in the Jordaan neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is dedicated to Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), whose pen name was Multatuli. Multatuli is best known for his 1860 novel Max Havelaar, inspired by time spent in Indonesia while serving in the Dutch civil service. Eduard Douwes Dekker was born in the Multatuli House and he died 67 years later in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany on a red sofa that can be seen here to date.

Wikipedia: Multatuli Museum (Netherlands) (EN), Website

De Poezenboot is an Amsterdam animal shelter for cats. It is located on a houseboat on the Singel. The Poezenboot takes in stray cats and rehomes them. A number of the cats roam freely on the boat, which is open to visitors. At peak times, the Poezenboot houses about 60 cats.

Wikipedia: De Poezenboot (Amsterdam) (NL), Website

The Embassy of the Free Mind is a museum, library and platform for free thinking inspired by the philosophy of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica collection. The museum focuses on the European culture of free thinking of the past 2,000 years with Hermetic wisdom as the source of inspiration: insight into the connection between God, cosmos and man. This connection is reflected in the Hermetic, alchemical, astrological, magical, mystical, kabbalistic and Rosicrucian texts and images in the collection.

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The House with the Heads is a large canal house on the Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam, named after the six ornaments shaped as heads, which are on the façade. The house is a rijksmonument and is listed on the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.

Wikipedia: Huis met de Hoofden (EN)

The Noorderkerk is a 17th-century Protestant church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Noorderkerk is located along Prinsengracht canal, on Noordermarkt square. The church is used for Dutch Reformed Church services and is also used regularly for classical music concerts.

Wikipedia: Noorderkerk (EN)

The Tichelkerk or Tichel is a church building on the corner of the Lijnbaansgracht and the Tichelstraat in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam. It was built in 1912 as the Roman Catholic St. Anthony's Church. In 2005 it became the Russian Orthodox Saint Nicholas of Myrakerk. In the same year, the building was designated a municipal monument. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the parish separated from the Moscow Patriarchate and joined the Orthodox Archdiocese of Belgium, Exarchate of the Netherlands and Luxembourg under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Wikipedia: H. Nicolaas van Myrakerk (Amsterdam) (NL)

Volksvrouw is a sculpture by the artist Henk Henriët.

Wikipedia: Volksvrouw (NL)

Liberation lime tree of the Jordaan children is a war memorial in Amsterdam-Centrum.

Wikipedia: Bevrijdingslinde van de Jordaankinderen (NL)

Electric Ladyland is a museum located in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is devoted to presenting art, minerals, and manufactured items that fluoresce under ultraviolet light. It opened on April 19, 1999 and was the first museum devoted to fluorescence.

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The Theo Thijssen Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, dedicated to writer, teacher and politician Theo Thijssen. It is managed by the Theo Thijssen Foundation and is located on the ground floor of Thijssen's birthplace at Eerste Leliedwarsstraat 16.

Wikipedia: Theo Thijssen Museum (NL), Website

Amsterdam Tulip Museum (2004) ATM is a privately owned museum in Amsterdam. The museum features exhibits about Tulips. The museum is in a canal house, along the Prinsengracht canal.

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The Anne Frank House is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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The Westerkerk is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant Calvinism in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the most western part of the Grachtengordel neighborhood, next to the Jordaan, between the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht.

Wikipedia: Westerkerk (EN), Website

The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. Opened on 5 September 1987, it was the first monument in the world to commemorate gays and lesbians who were killed by the German Nazi regime.

Wikipedia: Homomonument (EN), Website

The Westertoren in Amsterdam is the tower of the Westerkerk, at Prinsengracht 279, near the Westermarkt in Amsterdam-Centrum. The tower is owned by the municipality of Amsterdam. The tower will be restored from February 2023. This is expected to last until early 2025.

Wikipedia: Westertoren (Amsterdam) (NL)

Bridge 117 is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Brug 117 (NL)

The Rijckerbrug or Ryckerbrug is a fixed slab bridge between Amsterdam-Centrum and Amsterdam-West and runs over the Singelgracht. The bridge connects the Rozengracht with the De Clercqstraat. The bridge spans the Singelgracht and has its western abutment in the Nassaukade.

Wikipedia: Rijckerbrug (NL)

Raampoort Police Station, also known as Raampoort Police Station, is a 19th-century former police station on the Singelgracht in Amsterdam, on the corner of Marnixstraat and Tweede Hugo de Grootstraat. The building from 1888, designed by Willem Springer, was designated a national monument in 2001.

Wikipedia: Politiebureau Raampoort (NL)

The Blue Violin Player or De Blauwe Vioolspeler (1982) is a metal sculpture located near the Raampoortbrug bridge in Amsterdam Netherlands. It is also called Man Trying to Catch Tram 10 or Man with Violin Case. The identity of the artist is unknown.

Wikipedia: The Blue Violin Player (EN)

De Otter is a paltrok mill in Amsterdam, Netherlands which has been restored to working order. As all Dutch paltrok mills it is a windpowered sawmill. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 1198.

Wikipedia: De Otter, Amsterdam (EN)