The world's largest collection from the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) features more than 200 paintings and 600 drawings.

Housed in a splendid 17th-century building that was a former civic orphanage, this museum tell the history of Amsterdam through its vast collection of art and artifacts from medieval times to the present.

The Rijksmuseum ( the locals call it the " het Rijks") is now being reconstructed, so there's only a limited opening with the highlights of their collection. There is however a nice night-opening on...

The St. Nicolaas Boat Club gives the best boat rides in Amsterdam. They're not like the big tour boats. They have a small old open boat that holds about 10 people. It's much more like going out with...

Built in the late 19th century, the home of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is known for outstanding acoustics.

Rembrandt lived and worked from 1639 to 1658 in this 17th-century house, which today is a museum that pays tribute to the artist's life and career.

Modesty has no place at this highly respectable sauna, where you get down to the altogether in mixed company.

If you are arriving in Amsterdam by train or plane you will enter through magnificent Centraal Station.  As you leave the station you will be heading south and into Amsterdam.  Many hotels are within...

This unique and dramatic green copper building houses Amsterdam's science and technology center, where visitors are actively engaged in hands-on displays, computer simulations and various kinds of experiments.

Diamond factory since 1840.

This museum (also called Our Lord in the Attic Chapel) is housed in a charming canal house with 17th-century period rooms and, as a surprise to many visitors, a clandestine church in the attic, which was used by the Roman Catholics who were not allowed to worship publicly after 1578.