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Museums in Amsterdam
- The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands.
- The Van Gogh Museum specialises in works by Vincent van Gogh.
- The Stedelijk Museum specialises in modern art.
- The Rembrandt House Museum specialises in works by Rembrandt van Rijn.
- The Anne Frank House, Prinsengracht 263.
- The Museum Het Grachtenhuis (The Canal House Museum), gateway to the canals, Herengracht 386
- The H’ART Museum
- The Tropenmuseum, anthropological museum.
- The NEMO, the science museum in a building that looks like a sinking ship.
- The Verzetsmuseum, the Amsterdam resistance museum.
- The Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam’s historical museum.
- The Allard Pierson Museum, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam.
- The Bijbels Museum, where the Bible, art and culture meet in a monument full of history.
- The Filmmuseum, Holland’s museum for cinematography.
- The Joods Historisch Museum, The Jewish Historical Museum collects objects and works of art associated with the religion, culture and history of the Jews in the Netherlands and its former colonies.
- The Museum Van Loon, a home on the canal. The double-sized canal house dates from 1672.
- The Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum, museum about Dutch maritime history. Reopened on the 1 October 2011 after renovations since January 2007.
- Diamond Museum Amsterdam, a museum at the Museumplein about the history of diamonds.
Churches in Amsterdam
- Oude Kerk (“Old Church”) (ca. 1306).
- Nieuwe Kerk (“New Church”) (1408).
- Zuiderkerk (“Southern Church”), the city’s first church built specifically for Protestant services (1603–1611).
- Noorderkerk (“Northern Church”) (1620–1623).
- Westerkerk (“Western Church”), finished in 1638 after a design by Hendrick de Keyser.
- Oosterkerk (“Eastern Church”), construction was completed in 1671.
- Ronde Lutherse Kerk (“Round Lutheran Church”), the first round Lutheran church in the Netherlands, with a copper dome.
- English Reformed Church, in fact part of the Church of Scotland. One of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, situated in the Begijnhof, right in the centre of the city.
- De Krijtberg, a Neo-Gothic church with twin towers at the Singel canal.
- St Nicholas’s Basilica, a Neo-Renaissance and Baroque Roman Catholic basilica.
- De Duif (“The Dove”)
- Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder (“Our Lord in the Attic”), also known as Museum Amstelkring, a church hidden in an attic.
- De papegaai (“The Parrot”), located in the busy Kalverstraat, a Neo-Gothic church built in 1848.
- Mozes en Aäronkerk (“Moses and Aaron Church”), a Neoclassic church with twin towers on Waterlooplein.