Amsterdam attractions on the map
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Highlights include Anne Frank House, Rijksmuseum Arch, Van Gogh Museum, Grachtengordel, Dam, Royal Palace of Amsterdam.
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138 of 138- Rijksmuseum Arch: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
The passage through the building links a city street with the wartime evacuation of the museum’s principal painting.
- Van Gogh Museum: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
This stop traces how one family’s decision preserved the core of the collection for a separate museum.
- Dam: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
Here, the dangerous pause between the announced liberation and actual control of the city will become clear.
- Begijnhof: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
This stop will show how private property helped a Catholic community stay together.
- Westermarkt and Westerkerk: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
A church record will bring the famous artist back from museum renown to the ordinary order of city burials.
- Stedelijk Museum: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
Here it will become clear what risk a city museum took by giving its galleries to artists who had not yet been recognized.
- Concertgebouw: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
This stop shows how the owners and a conductor turned a social evening with service into disciplined listening.
- ARTIS: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
The story of a hiding place on an island will complete the route at the spot where soldiers chose not to cross the water.
- Amsterdam Centraal: story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
It will show how the railway took over the edge of the harbor and changed the main entrance to the old city.
- Albert Cuypmarkt: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
The market gives the story a human scale: a childhood performance became an opportunity that would pay off many years later.
- Oude Kerk: story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
It will show how the ban on the organ during services turned church music into an open public performance in the city.
- Museumplein: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
This is where the theme of public display begins: from a temporary colonial rotunda to a modern urban square.
- Hortus Botanicus: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
A long experiment will show how scientific fame can outlive a refuted conclusion through a single word.
- Jewish Museum: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
The fate of the Hanukkah lamp will bring the history of the looted complex down to one surviving object and one loss.
- Portuguese Synagogue: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
A wartime inspection will show how ordinary features of the building changed the occupiers’ decision.
- Nieuwmarkt and De Waag (Saint Anthony's Gate): story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
Links the former city gates, goods scales, and a public lesson whose commissioned image changed the career of a young artist.
- Damrak and the Beurs van Berlage: story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
Here, the merchants’ commission will collide with the architect’s vision of a world in which the former exchange trade will disappear.
- Oost-Indisch Huis: story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
It shows how a single contract for a northern expedition carried the history of an Amsterdam office far beyond Asia.
- Zuiderkerk: story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
It will show how city officials used an empty church hall when the regular burial service could no longer cope.
- Hollandsche Schouwburg — Memorial: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
Five weeks in one girl's life inside a collection point show how lists and queues could be turned against the system.
- National Holocaust Museum: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
The proximity of the school, nursery, and theater explains why rescue depended on a few meters and on adults' silence.
- Noordermarkt: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
This market square shows how two municipal workers brought an underground call out into the streets.
- Waterlooplein: story on the “Jewish Quarter and Plantage: Loss and Rescue” route
The fate of the market stalls will reveal the disappearance of an entire urban community through the number of stalls that remained.
- Oudezijds Voorburgwal: story on the “Amsterdam's Old Port and Medieval Center” route
It shows how a wealthy merchant set up a church hall behind an ordinary facade and lost his houses because of debts.
- Sarphatipark: story on the “From Museumplein to De Pijp: Culture and City Life” route
The finale will show how a monument paid for by the citizens' crafts survived the park's forced renaming.
- Brouwersgracht at Herenmarkt: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
The final stop will make it possible to compare the second tax riot with the conflict outside the house on Herengracht.
- Keizersgracht and Astoria: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
Here we will see how a company tried to outlive its founder and what remained after it disappeared.
- Torensluis and Singel: story on the “Amsterdam Canal Ring: Power, Money, and a City on Water” route
The trace of a vanished tower links the old city boundary to the freeing of prisoners.