Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #15 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

IJ-toren may refer to:IJ-toren (Veemkade), a residential tower built in 1998 in Amsterdam IJ Tower, an office tower built in 2002 in Amsterdam

Wikipedia: IJ-toren (NL)

Moon over Ameland is an artistic work of art, which stands on an architectural work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Maan over Ameland (NL), Website

NEMO Science Museum is a science centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located in the Oosterdokseiland neighbourhood in the Amsterdam-Centrum borough, situated between the Oosterdokseiland and the Kattenburg. The museum has its origins in 1923, and is housed in a building designed by Renzo Piano since 1997. It contains five floors of hands-on science exhibitions and is the largest science center in the Netherlands. It attracts around 728,000 visitors annually, which makes it the seventh most visited museum in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: NEMO (museum) (EN)

The Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Het Scheepvaartmuseum (EN), Website

The Montelbaanstoren is a tower on bank of the Oudeschans – a canal in Amsterdam. The original tower was built in 1516 as part of the Walls of Amsterdam for the purpose of defending the city and the harbour. The top half, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, was extended to its current, decorative form in 1606. Since then the tower has been 48m tall.

Wikipedia: Montelbaanstoren (EN)

The Tree of Life is a work of art in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Levensboom (Wim Tap) (NL)

Huis De Pinto is a former Amsterdam city mansion on the Sint Antoniesbreestraat near the Rembrandthuis. It was originally built in 1605 and is named after a leading Amsterdam family dynasty of Portuguese-Jewish merchant bankers. The founder of this dynasty was Isaack de Pinto, from Antwerp, who bought the house in 1651. His son commissioned the unusual facade, and his grandson Isaac de Pinto grew up there.

Wikipedia: Huis de Pinto (EN)

The Rembrandt House Museum is a museum located in a former house in the Jodenbreestraat, in the center of Amsterdam. Between 1639 and 1658, the house was occupied by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, who also had his studio and art dealership there.

Wikipedia: Rembrandt House Museum (EN), Website

Hortus Botanicus is a botanical garden in the Plantage district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is one of the world's oldest botanical gardens.

Wikipedia: Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam) (EN), Website

The Dockworker is a statue and monument on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam in memory of the February strike of 1941.

Wikipedia: De Dokwerker (NL)

The Jewish Museum in Amsterdam is a museum that highlights Jewish culture, religion, and history. Since 1987, the museum has been located on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in the heart of the old Jewish Quarter. The covered space between four synagogues that have been restored to an 18th-century state forms the entrance at Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1. The museum is part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.

Wikipedia: Joods Historisch Museum (NL), Website

The Moses and Aaron Church in the Waterlooplein neighborhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is officially the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua. Originally a clandestine church, it was operated by Franciscan priests at a house on Jodenbreestraat, where the wall tablets of Moses and Aaron hung on the wall. In 1970, the present church was designated as a Cultural Heritage Monument of the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Mozes en Aäronkerk (EN), Website

Dutch National Opera & Ballet is a theatre in Amsterdam that was specially built for performing operas, ballets and other forms of musical theatre.

Wikipedia: Nationale Opera en Ballet (NL), Website

The Jewish Resistance Monument 1940-1945 is a monument in Amsterdam that has stood on the corner of the Amstel and the Zwanenburgwal, on the side of the Stopera, since 1988. It was erected in memory of all Jewish resistance fighters who died in the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Joods Verzetsmonument (NL)

Christ Church in Amsterdam is a former cloth hall on the Groenburgwal that has been converted into an Anglican church. It is one of the first, possibly the first, buildings in the Netherlands in the style of the neo-Gothic style. The building was registered in the monument register on 28 April 1970.

Wikipedia: Christ Church (Amsterdam) (NL)

Oudemanhuispoort is a complex of buildings in Amsterdam, between the Spui and the Waterlooplein. It is one of the main locations of the University of Amsterdam, the Faculty of Humanities is located there. It was built in the 17th century in square shape and was originally used as an Old Men and Women guest house, it is protected as a national monument. In one of the four wings there is a passageway that connects the Oudezijds Achterburgwal on the west side with the Kloveniersburgwal on the east side, the gate on the east side of this passage is the namesake of the building complex.

Wikipedia: Oudemanhuispoort (NL)

The Huis aan de Drie Grachten or Huis op de Drie Grachten is a 17th-century canal house in Amsterdam, at the southeastern end of the Wallen district. The name is a reference to the fact that the building faces three different Amsterdam canals. The south facade faces Grimburgwal, the west facade faces Oudezijds Voorburgwal and the east facade faces Oudezijds Achterburgwal. The address is Oudezijds Voorburgwal 249.

Wikipedia: Huis aan de Drie Grachten (EN)

The equestrian statue of Queen Wilhelmina in Amsterdam is located on Rokin street, at the corner with Langebrugsteeg alley. The statue of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was sculpted in bronze by Theresia R. van der Pant.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of Queen Wilhelmina (EN)

The Munttoren or Munt is a tower in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It stands on the busy Muntplein square, where the Amstel river and the Singel canal meet, near the flower market and the eastern end of the Kalverstraat shopping street.

Wikipedia: Munttoren (EN)

The KattenKabinet is an art museum in Amsterdam devoted to works depicting cats. The museum collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Corneille, Sal Meijer, Théophile Steinlen, Ed van der Elsken and Jože Ciuha, among others.

Wikipedia: KattenKabinet (EN), Website

Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located on Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documentary, art and fashion. Next to large exhibitions by well-known photographers, Foam also shows the work of young and upcoming photographers, in shorter running exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (EN), Website

The Keizersgrachtkerk is an originally Reformed Church from 1888 on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. The building at number 566 was designed by the architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Salm and Abraham Salm.

Wikipedia: Keizersgrachtkerk (NL), Website

Melkweg is a music venue and cultural center on Lijnbaansgracht, near Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is housed in a former dairy and includes four music halls as well as a cinema, a restaurant and an exhibition space. It is operated by a nonprofit organisation founded in 1970.

Wikipedia: Melkweg (EN), Website

Leidseplein is a square in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the Weteringschans neighborhood, immediately northeast of the Singelgracht. It is located on the crossroads of the Weteringschans, Marnixstraat and Leidsestraat.

Wikipedia: Leidseplein (EN)

DeLaMar is a theatre near Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with two auditoriums containing 601 and 939 seats. It is currently in use for musicals, plays and cabaret.

Wikipedia: DeLaMar (EN), Website

The Leidsebosje is a park in Amsterdam-West.

Wikipedia: Leidsebosje (NL)