A note to all those historical museums around the world that struggle to present their exhibits in an engaging fashion: head here to see how it's done....

The College, occupying two floors of a 17th-century listed monument in the Red Light District, provides the public with an impressive array of information...

Artists such as Karel Appel, Eugene Brands and Corneille were once regarded as little more than eccentric troublemakers; they've now been absorbed into the...

Here you'll find dozens of images of naked folk and people having it off, mostly by unknown artists, as well as souvenir kitsch like mini replicas of the...

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

Amsterdam has endless options for wetting one's whistle, but this interactive venue across from the Van Gogh museum insists on serving up a little history -...

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...

Rembrandt bought this house in 1639 for ƒ13,000 (around €6,000), a massive sum at the time. Indeed, the pressure of the mortgage payments eventually got to...

Designed by PJH Cuypers and opened in 1885, the Rijksmuseum holds the country's largest collection of art and artefacts, including 40 Rembrandts and four...

The Sexmuseum is one of two museums devoted to doing the dirty in Amsterdam, and a tawdry little operation it is too. The Damrak location, just by Centraal...

The Vakbondmuseum offers a permanent exhibition showing the progress and history of unions in Dutch history. If you think that kind of thing sounds...

As well as the bright colours of his palette, Vincent van Gogh is known throughout the world for his productivity, and that's reflected in the 200 paintings...

The Verzetsmuseum is one of Amsterdam's most illuminating museums and quite possibly its most moving. It tells the story of the Dutch Resistance through a...