Amsterdam

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Dine aboard a disused ferry

Pont 13
Restaurants & cafés

This transformed ferry – amid a neighbourhood of students living in revamped shipping containers – is all-round intriguing.

A club with a difference

Nachttheatre Sugar Factory
Clubs

Performance meets clubbing at this unusual 'Night Theatre'.

Get your juices flowing

Latei
Restaurants

Healthy juices and tasty vegetarian meals are the order of the day at this kitsch and funky café.

Major attractions

Rijksmuseum

Museums

Even though it's undergoing a €227 million facelift, the Rijksmuseum still has 400 masterpieces on display, including Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Vermeer's 'Woman Reading a Letter'.

Van Gogh Museum

Museums

More than 700 of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings are displayed here, including the world-famous 'Sunflowers', 'The Bedroom' and 'The Potato Eaters'.

Anne Frank Huis

Attractions

Anne Frank and her family hid here for two years during World War II; a bookcase marks the entrance to the sober, unfurnished rooms in which she wrote her famous diary.

What's on in Amsterdam

Queen's Day revelers Queen's Day revelers - © Michelle Grant/Time Out

A street party to celebrate the queen's birthday, a Cannabis Cup, Europerve, a beer festival: this could only be Amsterdam!