Housed in two handsome Vingboons canal houses, Amsterdam's Bible Museum aims to illustrate life and worship in biblical times with archaeological finds from Egypt and the...

This excellent photography museum, located in a renovated canal house, holds regular exhibitions of works by shutter-button maestros like August Sander as well as advertising...

Housed in a grand 17th-century canal house (and a location for the film Ocean's 12), the Cat Cabinet differs from Amsterdam's more notorious pussy palaces. It's a veritable...

Named after the only chess world champion the Netherlands has produced and occupying the city's old House of Detention - it held Resistance leaders in World War II - the Max...

Just off Singel, this museum to the writer Eduard Douwes-Dekker (1820-87), aka Multatuli, is in the house where he was born. The various literary artefacts pay testament to his...

Amsterdam's waterways are chock-a-block with grand houses. Few of their interiors have been preserved in anything approaching their original state, but the former Van Loon...

Built in the 1680s, this mansion was purchased in the 1850s by the Willet-Holthuysen family. When Abraham, remembered as 'the Oscar Wilde of Amsterdam', died in 1889, his wife...

The ever-changing displays here are largely drawn from the institute's collection of costumes, props, posters, memorabilia and ephemera, much of which is digitally catalogued....

The Torture Museum is just another of those Amsterdam tourist traps that should really have been more informative, engaging and - most importantly - fun. OK, torture museums...