Amsterdam City Card with Public Transport and Free Museums
Description
Discover Amsterdam with the official I amsterdam City Card. Visit world-class museums and attractions for free, get unlimited access to Amsterdam's public transport, and enjoy a free canal cruise.
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Itinerary
Rijksmuseum
The most spectacular view of Amsterdam and the surrounding area
Stroll among the shady trees, admire the diversity of plants and animals, travel to the stars, enjoy our heritage. Visit ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo and experience nature right in the city centre.
Expand your world at NEMO Science Museum. The remarkable building on top of the IJ-tunnel offers five floors of exciting hands-on activities. At NEMO you can experience the joy of science and technology, by blowing gigantic soap bubbles, watch an enormous chain reaction and experiment in a real laboratory. In a variety of exhibitions you can 'Take a journey through the mind' or learn that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to sustainable electricity and smart transportation at 'Smart Technology'. Enjoy a magnificent view over Amsterdam The creative mind behind NEMO, build in 1997, is Italian architect Renzo Piano. He had a clear vision for his design of the NEMO building, with its very own piazza 22 metres above water level. The spectacular roof terrace has a magnificent view over Amsterdam and the Eastern Docklands. You can access the roof terrace free of charge. The roof terrace and cafe in NEMO are the perfect places to sit back, relax and enjoy a drink.
Museum Het Rembrandthuis (Rembrandt House)
Muiderslot
Hortus Botanicus
This is an Amsterdam-based extension of Russia's famed Hermitage Museum. Thera are three exceptional collections to be seen: - The first is from one of the world's largest and most famous museums: the Hermitage in St Petersburg. The museum of the Tsars, with more than three million objects. From 4 Feb 2017 until 17 Sep 2017: 1917. Romanovs & Revolution. The end of Monarchy. And from 7 Oct 2017 until 27 May 2018: Dutch Masters from the Hermitage. Treasures of the Tsars - Exhibit two: Portrait Gallery of the Golden Age - wonderful Dutch group portraits from the Amsterdam Museum and Rijksmuseum collections. - Exhibit three: Outsider Art Museum - We show work from new and absolutely orginal artists, from the collections of museum Het Dolhuys.
Allard Pierson
The Story of the Tulip. The museum features exhibits and films devoted to the tulip, the unofficial national flower of The Netherlands. From Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Dutch Merchants of the Golden Age, to gardeners today, the tulip has captivated people around the world for centuries. This fascinating flower has inspired artists and brought great wealth and even economic ruin to people who have fallen under its spell. Explore the tulip's history and discover the remarkable journey the flower bulb has taken from the wilds of the Himalayan highlands to a garden like yours. Conveniently located in the Jordaan district of historic Amsterdam near the Anne Frank House.
Hollandsche Schouwburg
Foam enables people all over the world to experience and enjoy photography, whether it's at our museum in Amsterdam, on the website, via Foam Magazine or in our Editions Gallery.Completed in 1716, the building where Foam is situated - Keizersgracht 609 - first operated as a warehouse. In 2002 it became Foam and has since been a hotspot for photography lovers.Foam nurtures and shows upcoming artists in combination with exhibitions of well known photographers and historical work. It has a gallery, library, bookshop and cafe.
The Amsterdam City Archives (the largest in the world), located in historic building De Bazel is housing a historical topographical collection with millions of maps, drawings and pictures, a library and extensive audio, film and photo archives. All these archives show how today’s city was made in the past by organizing intriguing activities (guided tours, arranged in advance), temporary & permanent exhibitions. Start december 7th - The Private World of Rembrandt - Tales of love, money and art. The exhibition tells the personal story of the greatest painter in the history of the Netherlands. Amsterdam city archives manages a large proportion of documents, witch relate to his work, clients, wives, lovers, children and financial difficulties. Permanent: The treasury chamber. In the cozy areas are showcases and also filing cabinets with documents, archaeological artifects and photo's. A visit brings you very close to the people who witnessed crucial moments in the history of Amsterdam.
EYE Filmmuseum is the Dutch centre for film culture and heritage. On april 5 2012 EYE opened the doors of a futuristic building on the banks of the river IJ right next to Amsterdam's Central station. A free ferry service runs right at the back of the train station and takes you across in less than 3 minutes (24/7).The EYE building was designed by Delugan & Meissl Associated architects from Austria and is freely accessible. It holds 4 screening rooms that showcase a wide variety of films, from historical classics to the latest arthouse premieres. There is a 1200m2 exhibtion space with 4 changing exhibtions every year.There is a large terrace with a spectaculair view over Amsterdam. The bar and restaurant are open 7 days a week from 10.00pm to 01.00am.
Madame Tussauds Amsterdam
Amsterdam Pipe Museum
CoBrA Museum of Modern Art
Housed in a splendid 17th-century building that was a former civic orphanage, this museum tells the history of Amsterdam through its vast collection of art and artifacts from medieval times to the present.
Museum Het Schip
Museum Het Grachtenhuis (The Canal House) is the natural starting point for visitors to Amsterdam. It is located in one of the most beautiful canalside houses. Het Grachtenhuis introduces visitors to one of the best city development projects in the world: the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam. During your visit to the multimedia, interactive exhibition, you will travel in 40 minutes through 400 years of history.
A LOOK INSIDE A HOUSEBOAT At the Houseboat Museum, you get the chance to experience first-hand what it’s to live in a houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. The museum is located in the Hendika Maria”, a former cargo ship built in 1914. The cargo hold is now a cosy living space featuring all the conveniences and a surprising amount of space and comfort. * Photography permitted * Plenty headroom inside * Description available in twenty languages Welcome on board!
Het Scheepvaartmuseum, The National Maritime Museum, tells inspiring stories of how the sea is in our genes. Come and enjoy the stimulating, interactive exhibitions and the stunning 17th century building.
In the heart of Amsterdam on the Keizersgracht the house of the Amsterdam regent family Van Loon can still be seen. In 1602 Willem van Loon co-founded the Dutch East-India Company. Seven days a week the family opens their home and collection to the public. Get a glimpse of the life of the Amsterdam Van Loon family in one of the finest canal houses of the city.
Huis Marseille is Amsterdam's first photography museum. For over fifteen years now, Huis Marseille has been offering a varied exhibition program in which photography's rich history and diverse uses are given consideration. In addition to this, the museum also frequently shows work from its own collection of contemporary photography. Huis Marseille serves as a platform for the particularization of photography. The museum provides a view of the 'landscape' taking shape in photography; it presents photographers, artists and forms of photography which do justice to visual quality and which can be counted among the medium's major, but also lesser known, highlights. This stands in contrast to the profusion of photography as a mass medium. In terms of the installation of exhibitions, the unique structure of this house plays a significant role. Each of the thirteen exhibition spaces has its own specific character, yet all of them relate well to the work on display. The building still has the atmosphere of a 'gentleman's residence', but its rooms have now become galleries. A sense of warmth and intimacy has remained. Huis Marseille strives to make the visitor feel welcome in these home-like surroundings.
A museum dedicated to the ways Dutch people approach the inevitability of death: now & in the past. ´Such an amazing museum... my favorite place to visit in Amsterdam!´ Bill Pechet, Vancouver - Guestbook review june 2017
Oude Kerk
In the heart of Amsterdam's bustling centre lies one of the city's oldest museums: Museum Our Lord in the Attic. Here visitors get to experience the Dutch Golden Age in a special way: a 17th-century house with a top floor converted into a Catholic church.
Micropia
Nieuwe Kerk
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Cat Cabinet
Portuguese Synagogue
Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam
Willet-Holthuysen Museum
Rembrandt Molen van Sloten - Amsterdam / Kuiperijmuseum
Tropenmuseum
The Moco Museum is an independent museum located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary art
Attraction featuring a 5D flight simulation with wind & water effects over Holland's famous sights.
De Schoolmeester is a smock mill in Westzaan, North Holland, the Netherlands which is maintained in full working order. It is the only wind powered paper mill in the world.
Visitors can take a deep dive into street art in the hip Amsterdam-North Area
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Once the card is activated (from the first time it is used), it is then valid for the consecutive hours shown on your card
- All locations included can only be visited one time
- Please be aware that you need to book a time slot for some of the City Card venues. For more detailed info per venue please go to, choose the venue you'd like to visit and see their page for detailed info on how to book your timeslot. It is not necessary to have the physical City Card in order to book your timeslots. You can book these ahead of time.
Reviews(784)
Me and our two teenagers took the opportunity to do Amsterdam and at the same time see Harry Styles. Since none of us have been to Amsterdam before, we thought we would try to maximize our days there. After comparing different options: pay all admissions and travel or use any of the discount cards, we chose 72h with I Amsterdam Card. We felt that we got good value for money and profited from the card compared to buying separately. We planned our days away from home and checked out what activities we absolutely wanted to do and what others were nearby if we had time to spare. Planning makes it possible to do a lot! Do not forget that some attractions must be pre-booked with timeslot, which then sets the framework for the schedule. Our recommendation is a maximum of two of these per day to be flexible. The only downside is probably that the app, which we chose to use, was extremely difficult to scan in public transport. Sometimes worked and sometimes not! Since one will both scan in and out and it malfunctioned all the time, unfortunately, we sometimes opted out of eg tram. It was hard to get help from the staff and at a stop when we desperately tried to check out just drove the driver away before we all got out. For those of us who have found it stressful to be quick in and out, a physical card is recommended. When our cards weren’t thinking, we used regular bank cards that always worked. It seemed to be the QR code scanner that was a bit 50/50. We also missed that buses were not included - all we saw were other kinds of buses than GVB. In conclusion, this card is highly recommended for those who really want to maximize a big city experience but are prepared to plan a bit in advance.
Be sure to get the iAmsterdam code from Viator before trying to activate the ticket. Otherwise, you’ll have end up not being able to access it. Also, I could never figure out how to book a Heineken Experience through the I Amsterdam app.
If you plan to travel and explore about the city using tram, train, or metro, it is worth the savings in your pocket. Free admission to wonderful museums- some you do have to book for free online prior to visiting, but we didn’t find this an issue. The only negative is retrieving the card- it’s very inconvenient to have to physically go to the I Am Amsterdam location in the train station to retrieve it. Online? No, they say you can download the app and then put down the eight digit cc number to have it online and on your phone. Every time I looked at my voucher, there was never an eight digit number. So there we went and the helpful employee there said that unfortunately many people who buy this card through a third-party, never get the numbers sent to them so that they can download it online So- my advice don’t buy from Viator or anyone else and purchase directly from the I Am Amsterdam store.
Reservation registered after payment but activation ticket at the scheduled point not possible because reference of the unknown TripAdvisor ticket in the city card system of the agency "I amsterdam" of the central station.
One Card for all activities is very good. But the APP had an issue on the day we were supposed to go siteseeing. So we had to buy all the entry tickets individually that costed more.
We stayed in Amsterdam for 2 days, so made use of the 48 hour card (90E for 48 hours), which we picked up at the large store in the Central Station. This came with a useful leaflet and a map. As others have said, you need to plan carefully to get full value as some of the attractions are free, some just discounted. We did the calculations and for what we wanted to do this just about made sense financially. However, as we found out what we went to travel to Zaanse Schans, not all buses are created equally; the card gives access to GVB busses and not the Meerplus company which seemed to be the only bus company (we used number 800 which took 20 minutes direct) to go to the windmills (I may be wrong but we did look well and ask several people), this misunderstanding on our part cost 25E. That said, access to the Metro and trams were also included and using a card did make public transport easy. I couldn't book the Heineken Brewery tour through the I Amsterdam weblink, so we had to just turn up and hope there was space (we were lucky) and when booking the Rijksmuseum, I was emailed 'e-tickets' which were only a timeslot confirmation, the City Card still needed to be produced at the entrance, a misunderstanding that was slightly embarrassing. Otherwise the cards were straightforward to use and applied discount at the advertised venues.
Great, but be careful the card only allows you to take buses and trams, not the metro
We opted for the 24hr I am Amsterdam City card thinking it was the best deal as it has free access to the Ruks museum and 69 other main museums and public transport and free canal cruise. We thought we could at least squeeze in to see 3musuems as we started at 8am in Ruks musuem. Took us sometime to get in because the codes from the I am Amsterdam city card weren't scanning in the museum and the staff wasn't able to help cause they had no idea how to fix it either. We were able to suss this out ourselves after googling it The museum was huge and there was so much to see, we ended up spending 4 hours there alone. The ones I wanted to see was the Rembrandt and Van Gogh exhibit which I thought had an extensive display of their works. It didn't. You can only visit this museum or any attraction once for that day unless you buy another ticket. And since most museums here close at 5 or 5:30 that means we won't have enough time to visit any of them unless we skip lunch and soldier on to the next. So that means we weren't able to maximise the value of the I am Amsterdam city card. If you're hotel is far from the museums, this will be helpful to use for public transport. Otherwise, in my opinion, just buy they ticket for the Ruks museum if that's all you'd like to see. It's €25 each and best to spend most of your day there if not then whole day to see everything from top to bottom. Or just purchase tickets for museums you really want to visit while your in Amsterdam. Otherwise, this city card doesn't really give much bang to your buck.
A complete con. Website says access to attractions. The first three we tried to get access to all said we needed to buy tickets and the card only gave us a discount. We also tried the Body World museum and they said it wasn't included at all despite the website saying otherwise. Utter scam and would be impossible to actually save any money. Not transparent at all
We book the card for 5 days and make our life easier. Transportations with Metro within Amsterdam was free, same many good entertainments (This is Holland, Amsterdam Lookout, Ferry Cruise) and museums (Rijksmuseum, Moco, Nemo). Also there is discount for Madame Tussauds, Body worlds and many other museums/entertainments. Same we used the card for all the museums /attractions in Zaanse Schans village. Value for money for those they want to see and do many things,.
