Nice museums for children

HIt can sometimes be quite a challenge to keep the children busy and looking for fun, new outings. Fortunately, Amsterdam offers enough creative and educational opportunities to turn a trip into an adventurous learning experience. Below is a list of the seven most fascinating kids museums in Amsterdam.  

WONDR Experience

Step into Amsterdam's first experience playground: an experience full of color and sensation that invites you to play and explore. Regardless of your age. This wonderful world is designed to stimulate all your senses in unexpected ways. It is a place that evokes creativity, imagination and pure joy. Get lost in a wonderful jungle. Dive into a pool of pink marshmallows. Dance under a glittering sky. Jump into the biggest ball pit you've ever seen. Draw on the walls. Sing your heart out. Let your imagination run wild and experience the art of playing. 

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The Upside Down

The Upside Down is the largest social media museum in Amsterdam, where you make the rules. A colorful world is created with more than 25 rooms and decors. Everything fits in with the theme of 'The New Dutch'. It's as if they threw a museum, an amusement park, a disco and some perfect backdrops into the blender to create the ultimate Dutch experience. 

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Tropical Museum

The Tropenmuseum is a museum of world cultures, located in one of the most beautiful museum buildings in the Netherlands. The impressive national monument located on the Oosterpark, in the heart of Amsterdam East, dates from 1926. The impressive central Light Hall offers a wide view of what the museum has to offer: an extensive permanent exhibition and regularly changing exhibitions in which the objects each have a tell human story. Stories about universal human themes such as mourning, celebrating, decorating, praying or fighting. They make you curious about the enormous cultural diversity that the world has to offer. 

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NEMO

In NEMO Science Museum everyone, from young to old, discovers how fascinating science and technology are. On five floors full of exhibitions, experiments, demonstrations and workshops, visitors experience how special everyday things are.

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Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum tells the story of 800 years of Dutch art and history with 8,000 objects. We take you from the Middle Ages to Mondriaan. We do this of course in the historic castle-like building with the Gallery of Honor as the highlight.

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Maritime Museum

Discover 500 years of Dutch maritime history and the connection with the society of today and the future. The Maritime Museum houses one of the largest and most prominent maritime collections in the world and includes paintings, ship models, navigation instruments and nautical charts.

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Move

From unique exhibitions and events around mobility to the tastiest culinary delights. Move Amsterdam is an afternoon or evening out that you will not experience anywhere else. Every visit to the beautiful building on Stadionplein in Amsterdam, right next to the Olympic Stadium, brings you new experiences. From interactive exhibitions to unique exhibitions. The most exciting cars in the world. Film, art and music and of course not to forget: the Michelin star restaurant Wils by chef Joris Bijdendijk.

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