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How to Explore Amsterdam. The Best City Passes for Tourists and Locals

Posted by Dana Marin | Jun 4, 2025 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Culture and Events, Featured

…offers you free entry to almost every museum out there: in total, over 500 museums! At the same time, you help the museum world: almost all revenue from the Museum Pass benefits the participating museums. You will have to check in advance if the museum you want to visit accepts the Museumkaart and plan accordingly. Sometimes you will have to pay extra for special/temporary exhibitions, but, at the price of 75 Euro/year, your investment will be wor…

Unfinished Past. Inside the Debate on Restitution at Wereldmuseum

Posted by Dana Marin | May 9, 2025 | All Photos, Culture and Events

…discussion led also to a question that some visitors may be wondering: If museums return every object to its country of origin, what will ethnographic museums show? Will they cease to exist? The answer is clear: no, they won’t. As Wayne Modest explained, museums continue to collect new items and tell new stories — about the past, but also about the present. Statue of standing man Artist unknown; Africa, Congo, Woyo; before 1952 The Unfinished Pas…

Museums Are Open Again: Ten Amsterdam Exhibitions I’m Looking Forward to This Year (2022)

Posted by Dana Marin | Feb 3, 2022 | All Photos, Culture and Events

…priorities are visiting museums and attending dance shows again. Amsterdam museums are eager to receive visits and they have prepared many cool exhibitions for us! I’ve made a list of the exhibitions I look forward to and I thought I should share it with you, for inspiration. Museum exhibitions in Amsterdam, 2022 Van Gogh and the Olive Groves, at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (11 March-12 June 2022). More than a dozen paintings of olive groves by V…

The Dutch Love for Day Trips: Exploring the Culture of “Dagje Weg”

Posted by Dana Marin | Jan 13, 2025 | All Photos, Culture and Events

…essenscheepjes Museum (Bottle ship museum) in Enkhuizen, there are so many museums to discover in the Netherlands! Don’t forget to add on your list the amazing outdoor museums where you can learn a lot about Dutch history: Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen and Openlucht Museum Arnhem. Nature and Outdoors There are 21 national parks in the Netherlands, and many other small reserves and parks. To mention only a few: Hoge Veluwe National Park, De Biesbos…

Beautiful Museums: Mauritshuis, a World-Class Museum in The Hague

Posted by Dana Marin | Mar 29, 2024 | All Photos, Culture and Events

…the houses of Dutch families from the 17th century. Compared to the famous museums in Amsterdam, the museums of The Hague are not crowded, and you can have a very relaxed visit, admiring the art at your own pace, without worrying that you have to make space for the next visitors. Even the Girl with a Pearl Earring is very accessible, and you can easily have your selfie with her without waiting in a queue 🙂 Next to the permanent collection, the mus…

Best museums Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum

Posted by Dana Marin | Mar 24, 2014 | All Photos, Culture and Events

…um in Amsterdam Being a fan of van Gogh’s art, this is one of my favourite museums in Amsterdam. I also like the museum’s modern approach, the fact that they often organise workshops for adults and children, and every Friday there is music, dance, food, and drinks in the lounge area until ten o’clock in the evening. I recommend visiting the museum on a Friday at the end of the day, if you get the chance, then you can also enjoy the extra activitie…

Things to Do in Utrecht: a Complete Guide to Discovering the City and Its Surroundings

Posted by Dana Marin | Feb 23, 2022 | All Photos, City Guides, The Netherlands

…is monumental building from 1276, tap your own beer or try a beer tasting. Museums to See in Utrecht Utrecht has an impressive number of Museums, art galleries and exhibitions. From Christian art to automatically played instruments and trains, there is something for everyone. One day will never be enough to visit everything Utrecht’s cultural scene has to offer, so make your choice wisely. Here is only a selection of the main museums in Utrecht. T…

Dutch Provinces: a Complete Guide to Exploring the Netherlands’ Treasures

Posted by Dana Marin | Jul 14, 2023 | All Photos, Featured, The Netherlands

…m (with its bold architecture), Gouda (cheese and history), and The Hague (museums and beaches). The coastal dunes and long beaches – like those in Scheveningen, Katwijk, and Ouddorp – draw visitors year-round. Nature lovers will enjoy the Biesbosch National Park, a lush network of wetlands perfect for hiking and boating. Other nature areas include Voornes Duin, The Hague Forest, Meijendel dune reserve, and the Reeuwijkse Plassen lakes. Top attrac…

Unique Museums in the Netherlands: Speelklok Museum Utrecht

Posted by Dana Marin | Jun 28, 2025 | All Photos, Culture and Events

Are you ready to step out of the ordinary? Are you looking for an unusual museum to visit? Then check out Utrecht’s Speelklok Museum! Discover a world where time dances to the rhythm of self-playing musical instruments, and history has a melody. This unusual museum, brimming with eccentric charm, offers an immersive, unforgettable journey that promises more than your average sightseeing. If you walk the main shopping streets of a Dutch city in th…

Cultural Amersfoort: Museum Flehite

Posted by Dana Marin | Feb 10, 2022 | All Photos, Culture and Events

…ur pace, without being chased by the line of people behind you. One of the museums I visited in Amersfoort was Museum Flehite, the historical museum of Amersfoort and Eemland. Located in three historic houses built into the city wall during the Late Middle Ages, museum Flehite welcomes its visitors with a large-scale model of the 17th-century Amersfoort. As one of the oldest museums in the Netherlands, Museum Flehite not only preserves the cultura…