Amsterdam: Diamond Museum Highlights & Guided Factory Tour
Description
Visit the Diamond Museum and become a diamond expert! While our museum prepares for its new home, the highlights of the collection are on show in a temporary exhibition, combined with a guided diamond factory tour on one ticket. Your visit starts on the factory floor, where actual diamond polishers and goldsmiths turn rough stones into the most beautiful jewellery, and you discover the art of diamond valuation with the 4 C's: Carat, Clarity, Colour and Cut. Then the Diamond Museum Highlights exhibition sends you on a journey that starts 200 kilometres below the earth. You will learn how diamonds are formed through a process of billions of years to their final shape we all know and love. Be enchanted by glittering diamonds, admire the Ape skull set with 17,000 diamonds, and come face to face with replicas of the Koh-i-Noor, the Cullinan and the crowns of kings.
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Located between the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum at the famous Museum Square you will find the Diamond Museum Amsterdam. While the museum prepares for its new home, the highlights of the collection are on show in a temporary exhibition, with a guided diamond factory tour on one ticket. Amsterdam has been the City of Diamonds for four centuries, and many famous stones were cut here, such as the Cullinan (the largest diamond ever found) and the Koh-i-Noor (the mountain of light). Learn about every aspect of the world of diamonds. From the origins of diamonds, to the valuation, different types of diamond and the attributes that make them special and so valuable. Watch master polishers turn rough stones into brilliants in front of you during a 30 minute guided factory tour, gaze upon the diamond encrusted version of 'Starry Starry Night' by van Gogh, see how kings throughout history showed their power and status through our replica crowns and the famous diamond-studded ape skull.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Museum opening hours are daily from 9am to 5pm (including weekends and holidays)
Reviews(79)
This was interesting to see how the diamonds are cut; and of course, to see the gorgeous sparkly gems!
A very pleasant visit, with a friendly and smiling guide: it makes all the difference. One small downside, we did not take many things.
The tour was excellent, with a very informative guide, who clearly loved his job. As well as an understanding of the work of diamond polishing, the way they are valued and presented, we got to see a wide range of diamonds up close.
We had a wonderful time on our tour. We were able to talk with one of the diamond polishers and learn so much! Our tour guide took us in a special room and showed us some loose diamonds and some diamonds under a microscope, and that was fabulous. The tour guide was so good at answering all our questions, and made it a really fun experience. I highly recommend a tour, and would definitely trust Royal Coster Diamonds if I was looking to buy a diamond.
Awful Experience. A total waste of money. At the very least we expected to see diamonds being polished with an explanation from the polisher of what they were doing.This did not happen. One polisher spent all the time we were there on her phone. Another two just talked to each other. None of them tried to engage with myself or my partner. We would actively discourage others from this 'tour.' in the end we felt we spent €9.00 each to visit a jewellery store!
Very exciting insights...all with Audioquide. An insider tip in Amsterdam
I recommend this very rewarding visit. We are French but the guide spoke clear and easy to understand English. It introduces you to the wonderful world of diamonds, from the manufacturing process, their classification to showing you beautiful pieces and the difference between them. Beautiful. Thank you very much sir for this beautiful 1 hour trip.
The tour was very insightful on how a raw diamond is turned in to the final jewel, both from a manufacturing perspective and also on the history. Well worth a visit for those interested in jewellery
While we did enjoy most of the museum we found some of the content in correctly titled and the audio visual in need of an update with some listening devices broken
Great visit!! thanks to the availability, professionalism and friendliness of Simone Pilla concluded with a nice purchase .. thanks to soon
