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Visit the beautiful Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands. This beautiful museum features works by some of history’s most influential artists!
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- Discover Dutch masters like Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Gogh
- See the world-famous The Night Watch and Milkmaid
- Includes access to selected special exhibits
Children
Child ticket for 0-18 year olds
Opening hours
Monday - Sunday: 9.00 - 17.00
Languages
Free tours are available in the Rijksmuseum app in English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Mandarin
Ticket information
Ticket directly available on smartphone
Tickets cannot be rescheduled or cancelled
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The Rijksmuseum has her own privacy policy, terms and conditions, and guidelines for a safe visit. Please review them before visiting the Rijksmuseum.
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NOTE: Ticket to the Frans Hals Exhibition is not included.
Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly
- Free access to bathroom
- With audio description
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Public Transport
The nearest stops are Vijzelgracht (metro 52 and tram 24) and Museumplein (tram 2 & 12).
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The Dutch national museum
The Rijksmuseum is the largest art museum in the Netherlands and boasts an impressive collection of world-famous works by such masters as Vincent Van Gogh, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals, and Rembrandt van Rijn. With the help of both artworks and historical artefacts, the national museum of the Netherlands tells the story of 800 years of Dutch art and history.
The collection contains more than one million pieces and has about 8,000 objects including paintings, sculptures, and historical artifacts on display, spanning from the year 1200 to the present. Some of the most notable art works on display include Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642), Vermeer’s The Milkmaid (1647), and one of Van Gogh’s untitled self-portraits (1887).
Visit one of the best museums of Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum takes you all the way from the Middle Ages to Mondrian. As well as featuring beautiful art work, some of the top attractions in the museum also include their collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury. And the Cuypers Library is the largest and oldest art historical library in the Netherlands. Visitors, students and art historians alike are welcome to use the library to delve deeper into the Rijksmuseum collection.
The current building of the Rijksmuseum, designed by Dutch architect Pierre Cuypers, first opened its doors in 1885 and has been a national heritage site since 1970. The most recent renovation project has made sure the museum continues to function as a connection between the past and the present as it combines the old with the modern. The atrium features a high glass ceiling and spacious, contemporary architecture that blends uniquely with the traditional red-brick walls.
Get your Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Tickets!
The Rijksmuseum is one of Amsterdam’s must-see attractions. Get your Rijksmuseum tickets online and make sure you don’t miss it on your visit to Amsterdam! A visit to the impressive Rijksmuseum is a perfect way to escape the hustle and bustle of the lively centre and spend a relaxed afternoon gazing upon some of history’s most famous and influential masterpieces. If you wanted to you could spend all day at the Rijksmuseum, so the best time to start your visit might be in the morning.
The building is located in the heart of Amsterdam’s Museumplein, where you’ll also find the Stedelijk Museum and the Van Gogh Museum, as well as the Royal Concerthall, which is often regarded as one of the best concert halls in the world. Book your tickets today and discover the wonders of this Dutch national treasure!
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907blaked
Amazing museum, we spent 2 1/2 hours but could have spent all day
As everyone else says, this is an amazing museum with so much stuff that you can barely see in one day. With that said, the app was very difficult to use, and so we ended up not using it. Not sure if the official audio guide from inside the museum would have been better. We got our tickets several weeks in advance for 9 AM, and it was a good thing because the museum got considerably busier by 10 AM or so. Their collection of decorative parts was particularly enjoyable.
Mar 16, 2024TheAndrewNatt
Brilliant day out.
Excellent, well organised gallery & museum. Booking process for tickets easy, meet & greet professional, lockers free, audio guides easy to use and very useful. Cafe brilliant. What’s not to like about this cultural Pearl. You do need to set aside almost a whole day, it really is that big!
Mar 16, 2024renatovwbach
Best museum in town
Best Museum in Amsterdam, great paintings, beautiful place. Easy access, a por of Rembrandts e Vermeers, an unforgetable visiting.
Mar 15, 2024denewton
Always worthwhile
The extra exhibition, included in the normal entrance price, is on Frans Hals and is very good. Spent around 45 minutes in this before moving on to some of the main galleries. Special mention for the Special Exhibitions area which has items including model ships, china, various weaponry .. and was pretty quiet. Well-recommended to visit.
Mar 15, 2024camrena2024
A must see!!!!!!
This is my favorite art musuem (and maybe even museum) I’ve ever been to! It has some of the best art pieces I’ve ever seen ranging across Eurasia, for the Netherlands themselves , all the way to Japan. We also saw the Frans Hal section, which was great, but I think it’s only there for a limited time. You can get lost for hours in that museum, so much art to look at and it’s all so great and you learn a ton too. They also have these little audio headphone things which a lot of people use that you put on and it tells you more information on what you’re looking at. There aren’t just paintings in this museum either, also ship models, sculptures, and old guns to name a few more things. If you’re in Amsterdam, especially if you’re visiting, you GOTTA go to this museum!!!!!!!!
Mar 14, 2024Christel8
Frans Hals exhibition - worth the visit
Another amazing exhibition organized by the Rijksmuseum. This time we visited the exhibition of Frans Hals. We had an audio tour booked and could visit this exhibition on our own which is very convenient. As usual when buying tickets online for this museum, we booked a certain time slot (which was written on the top of our tickets). But when getting to the entrance of the exhibition a very unfriendly and very impolite host of the Rijksmuseum told us that we do not have a time slot and that we had to get one at the reception. We visited the Rijksmuseum already several times before and never experienced this before, also never had a discussion with such a rude person. As a guest of the Rijksmuseum you pay good money for entrance, so some sort of friendliness can be expected.
Mar 12, 2024520lesliew
Lots of Wonderful Artwork
The artwork is amazing. It's a large museum and would likely take two days to tour thoroughly. We oldsters found the audio tour a bit confusing, but interesting to listen to once we figured it out. The cafe was a great place to stop for lunch and recharge.
Mar 9, 2024alexSoCal
A must see
This is an excellent museum of Dutch art with lots of historic artifacts and historic art contexts. I am much more interested in history, and spending 3 hours on its three floors was very illuminating.
Mar 8, 2024asprenkleofadventure
Where the Rembrandt's are...
This museum is a hidden gem in Europe. It doesn't get all the fanfare of the Louvre or the Sensation Overload that one experiences at the British Museum, but it is a wonder all of it's own. The star of this show is Rembrandt's masterpiece 'The Night Watch." That alone is impressive, but this museum has other great works of art that you probably recognize, such as the Milkmaid and Rembrandt's self portrait as Paul. Once you're done admiring all the artwork, enjoy the building itself, which is gorgeous and houses the Art History Library. All the museums in Amsterdam are quite busy and full and they do limit capacity inside, so I recommend you buy your tickets in advance so that you get to visit. The website was quite easy to navigate and we bought the tickets while we were on the train, so by the time we traveled the 30 minutes there and jumped in line, we were in! Plan on 2 hours at least if you really want to look and enjoy...this is a feast for the eyes!
Mar 6, 2024marionl373
Great place to spend some hours looking and experiencing beautiful art
It was wonderful. So much to see in every corner. Well presented. . Lots of room to take your time looking at the beautiful art. As expected, around some of the well known pieces of art it wasn’t as easy to see
Mar 2, 2024
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