Museum Quarter & Oud-Zuid

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Museum Quarter & Oud-Zuid and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• A stroopwafel, made in front of you10 min walk852 m
• Albert Cuyp Market11 min walk916 m
• The canals by boat, at dusk11 min walk938 m
• The Begijnhof14 min walk1.1 km
• The Jordaan on foot19 min walk1.5 km
• An evening in a brown café19 min walk1.6 km
• Anne Frank House20 min walk1.7 km
• Ride a bike like you live here11 min taxi3.5 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 1.Rijksmuseum — The Night Watch in its own cathedral-like hall, Vermeer's quiet rooms, and the best-run big museum in Europe. Book the first slot, walk straight to the Gallery of Honour, then let yourself drift.
• 3.Van Gogh Museum — Two hundred paintings tracing one decade-long burn from potato-dark to sunflower-blaze — the most moving single-artist museum anywhere. Timed tickets only; book the same day you book your flight.
• 10.Vondelpark on a fine day — The city's garden — 47 hectares of ponds and lawns where all of Amsterdam turns up the moment the sun does. Picnic supplies from an Albert Heijn, a spot by the rose garden, nowhere to be.