6 cities · 12 museums
Best Museums in Netherlands
Independent visitor guides with admission, hours, and collection highlights.
Quick answer
World Museum Guide covers 12 museums in Netherlands across 6cities — including Anne Frank House, Frans Hals Museum, Groninger Museum — with admission prices, opening hours, and highlights for each. Check each guide for current prices and free days.
Planning your visit
How many museums are in Netherlands?
World Museum Guide covers 12 museums in Netherlands .
What are the best museums in Netherlands?
Anne Frank House, Frans Hals Museum, Groninger Museum, H'ART Museum Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum.
Are museums in Netherlands free?
Admission varies — see individual museum pages for prices and free days.
Browse by city
Amsterdam
Anne Frank House
Otto Frank, the only member of the Frank family to survive the Holocaust, opened the house as a museum in 1960. The original Secret Annex remains preserved behind the famous bookcase entrance.
Haarlem
Frans Hals Museum
Founded in 1862, the Frans Hals Museum moved into the Oudemannenhuis — a charitable home for elderly men — in 1913. Its main attraction is the only complete group of Hals's monumental Civic Guard portraits.
Groningen
Groninger Museum
The Groninger Museum was founded in 1874 and moved in 1994 into a startling postmodern complex by Alessandro Mendini, with pavilions by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Michele De Lucchi, and Philippe Starck.
Amsterdam
H'ART Museum Amsterdam
Opened in 2009 as the Hermitage Amsterdam in a former seventeenth-century almshouse on the Amstel river, the museum was renamed H'ART in 2023 and now partners with the British Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
Helene Kröller-Müller assembled one of the first great twentieth-century European art collections. She and her husband donated it to the Dutch state in 1935; the museum opened in 1938 inside the Hoge Veluwe National Park.
The Hague
Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis was built between 1633 and 1644 for Count John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen. It opened as a public picture gallery in 1822 with the royal collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings.
Rotterdam
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Founded in 1849 with a bequest from F.J.O. Boijmans, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen holds 151,000 works spanning Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel through Salvador Dalí and contemporary design. It is Rotterdam's leading art museum.
Amsterdam
Rembrandt House Museum
Rembrandt bought this Jodenbreestraat house in 1639. He went bankrupt in 1656 and the house was sold; it opened as a museum in 1911 and was painstakingly restored to its original state in 1999.
Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum
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 Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.
Amsterdam
Royal Palace Amsterdam
Built by Jacob van Campen between 1648 and 1665 as the Amsterdam city hall, the building was claimed by King Louis Bonaparte as a royal residence in 1808 and remains a working palace of the Dutch royal family today.
Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum
Founded in 1895, the Stedelijk holds one of the world's leading collections of modern and contemporary art, from Mondrian and Malevich to today's design and digital practice.
Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South. It opened on 2 June 1973, and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.