Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ is the main concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building opened in 2005 and is located above the IJtunnel, a ten-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. The building was designed by Danish architects 3XN. The Bimhuis is part of and partly integrated in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.

Wikipedia: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (EN), Website

The HIV/AIDS monument is an artistic work of art on De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam-Centrum that was unveiled on 1 December 2016.

Wikipedia: HIV/AIDSmonument (NL)

The Office of Koppe's Scheepsagentuur, also known as the NACO house, is a building on the De Ruijterkade, Amsterdam-Centre. It was included in the monument register on 22 April 2002 because of the combination of the Amsterdam School and an exotic architectural style, especially in the roof. Since 13 December 2021, it has been located at bridge 2274 over the Eastern Entrance.

Wikipedia: Kantoor van Koppe's Scheepsagentuur (NL)

Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder is a 17th-century canal house, house church, and museum in the city center of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Catholic Church was built on the top three floors of the canal house during the 1660s. It is an important example of a "schuilkerk", or "clandestine church" in which Catholics and other religious dissenters from the seventeenth century Dutch Reformed Church, unable to worship in public, held services. The church has been open as a museum since 28 April 1888, and has 85,000 visitors annually.

Wikipedia: Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (EN)

Chinatown is the Chinese neighborhood of Amsterdam. The neighborhood is located around the Geldersekade and Zeedijk in the old city center (Amsterdam-Centrum).

Wikipedia: Chinatown (Amsterdam) (NL)

De Wallen is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam. It consists of a network of alleys containing approximately 300 one-room cabins rented by prostitutes who offer their sexual services from behind a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights and blacklight. Window prostitution is the most visible and typical kind of red-light district sex work in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: De Wallen (EN)

The Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010. The Amsterdam Canal District consists of the area around the city's four main canals: the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht, and the Prinsengracht. From the Brouwersgracht, the canals are generally parallel with one another, leading gradually southeast into the Amstel river.

Wikipedia: Grachtengordel (EN), Website

The National Monument on Dam Square is a 1956 cenotaph in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A national Remembrance of the Dead ceremony is held at the monument every year on 4 May to commemorate the casualties of World War II and subsequent armed conflicts.

Wikipedia: National Monument (Amsterdam) (EN)

Madame Tussauds Amsterdam is a wax museum situated in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. It is located in the centre of the city on Dam Square, near the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. Founded in 1970, it was the first Madame Tussauds that was opened in mainland Europe as well as being the first foreign branch of the British institution. The collection of Madame Tussauds Amsterdam consists of a collection of wax figures of famous celebrities in different categories such as the Golden Age of Dutch history, music, sport and film.

Wikipedia: Madame Tussauds Amsterdam (EN), Website

Dam Square or the Dam is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the best-known and most important locations in the city and the country.

Wikipedia: Dam Square (EN)

A plaque and thirty-two paving stones on Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam commemorate the victims of the Shooting on Dam Square on 7 May 1945.

Wikipedia: Monument voor Damslachtoffers 7 mei 1945 (NL), Website

The Nieuwe Kerk is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parish, it now belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (EN), Website

The Monument to Annick van Hardeveld is a war memorial in the centre of Amsterdam. The monument in the form of a bluestone pedestal with a plaque is placed on the Hekelveld, in front of the building that bears house number 25. It was designed by the artist Hans Bayens.

Wikipedia: Monument voor Annick van Hardeveld (NL)

The Multatuli Museum is a 17th-century museum in the Jordaan neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is dedicated to Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), whose pen name was Multatuli. Multatuli is best known for his 1860 novel Max Havelaar, inspired by time spent in Indonesia while serving in the Dutch civil service. Eduard Douwes Dekker was born in the Multatuli House and he died 67 years later in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany on a red sofa that can be seen here to date.

Wikipedia: Multatuli Museum (Netherlands) (EN), Website

The House with the Heads is a large canal house on the Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam, named after the six ornaments shaped as heads, which are on the façade. The house is a rijksmonument and is listed on the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.

Wikipedia: Huis met de Hoofden (EN)

The Embassy of the Free Mind is a museum, library and platform for free thinking, inspired by the philosophy of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica collection. The museum focusses on the European culture of free thinking of the past 2.000 years, with Hermetic wisdom as the source of inspiration: insight into the connection between God, cosmos and man. This connection is reflected in the Hermetic, alchemical, astrological, magical, mystical, kabbalistic and Rosicrucian texts and images in the collection.

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The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. Opened on 5 September 1987, it was the first monument in the world to commemorate gays and lesbians who were killed by the German Nazi regime.

Wikipedia: Homomonument (EN), Website

The Bartolotti House is a canal house at Herengracht 170-172 in Amsterdam. It was built around 1617 for Willem van den Heuvel tot Beichlingen, one of the richest Amsterdammers at the time, who had inherited a lot of money from a childless uncle by marriage, Giovanni Battista Bartolotti, a merchant from Bologna. In this uncle's will, it was stipulated that he had to call himself "Bartolotti". The name is sometimes also "From the Hill to Beichlingen Said Bartolotti". His mother Maria Pels (?-1592) married Willem Bartolotti in Stade in 1589. Her son Jan Baptist Bartolotti van den Heuvel (1590-1624) married Leonora Hellemans Arnoudsdochter (1594-1661) in 1612. In 1639, Jacoba Victoria, daughter of Guillelmo (1602-1658), was born in the house.

Wikipedia: Huis Bartolotti (NL), Website

Bridge 8 is the official designation of a bridge in the centre of Amsterdam. Until 5 July 2016, the bridge had the unofficial name Huiszitbrug, which referred to the Huiszitpakhuis. However, this name has been dropped.

Wikipedia: Brug 8 (NL)

Bridge 6 is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam. The road bridge connects the Paleisstraat with the Gasthuismolensteeg. In doing so, it spans the Singel. To the southeast of the bridge is the Bungehuis.

Wikipedia: Brug 6 (NL)

De Papegaai is the lesser of the two parochial churches in the St Nicholas Roman Catholic parish in Amsterdam. The church is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. It is nicknamed "De Papegaai" because it was originally hidden in a garden behind a regular housefront that belonged to a bird-trader in the days when Catholicism could not be practised publicly. Today there is a narrow, Neo-Gothic facade flanked by statues of St Joseph and a perched parrot. The church is on the busy Kalverstraat just south of Dam Square, and invites people in for quiet, as well as celebrating Sunday Mass in Latin with Gregorian chant.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Amsterdam (EN), Website

De Negen Straatjes is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Grachtengordel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Negen Straatjes (EN)

The Blue Violin Player or De Blauwe Vioolspeler (1982) is a metal sculpture located near the Raampoortbrug bridge in Amsterdam Netherlands. It is also called Man Trying to Catch Tram 10 or Man with Violin Case. The identity of the artist is unknown.

Wikipedia: The Blue Violin Player (EN)

Bridge 117 is a fixed bridge in the centre of Amsterdam.

Wikipedia: Brug 117 (NL)

The rattle is a bronze statue in Amsterdam Oud-West.

Wikipedia: De ratelaar (NL)

The Peter Wilhelm Janssen Monument is a memorial on the Bellamyplein in Amsterdam-West.

Wikipedia: Monument Peter Wilhelm Janssen (NL)

De Hallen is a cultural centre in the Kinkerbuurt in Amsterdam-West, with a library, theatre, cinema, restaurants, TV studios and crafts centre. The centre is located in the former Tollensstraat depot of the Amsterdam Municipal Tram, built in 1902-'05 and was used by the Amsterdam Municipal Transport Company until 1996, after which the buildings were still in use by various tenants, including the Amsterdam Public Transport Museum until 2005. The complex is located between Kinkerstraat, Bilderdijkkade, Bellamyplein and Ten Katestraat.

Wikipedia: De Hallen (Amsterdam) (NL)

The figurehead may refer to:Het boegbeeld (Amsterdam), a work of art in Amsterdam-West by Leonie Mijnlieff Het boegbeeld (novel), a 2002 novel by Dutch writer Mala Kishoendajal

Wikipedia: Het boegbeeld (NL)

Het Sieraad is a multifunctional school building on the Postjesweg in Amsterdam. It is owned by the Ymere housing corporation. It is largely surrounded by the waters of the Admiralengracht, the Postjeswetering and the Kostverlorenvaart and is built on a pentagonal plot. Since 20 January 2003, the building has been a national monument.

Wikipedia: Het Sieraad (NL)

Europe is a sculpture by Hans Kuyper.

Wikipedia: Europa (beeld) (NL)