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City Card guide The City Card guide offers a complete list of the museums, attractions, transport and cruises that are free or discounted with your card. Activate your card by visiting a museum or attraction, taking public transport or a canal cruise. 1 photo Koen Smilde Content 04 Using your City Card 06 Public transport 07 I amsterdam City Card app 08 Museums 30 Attractions 38 Canal cruises 41 Transport & rentals 44 Freebies & discounts Use of Colours Free entrance in Amsterdam Freebies & discounts in Amsterdam Free entrance in the Amsterdam Area Welcome Freebies & discounts in the Amsterdam Area to Amsterdam The I amsterdam City Card has been Amsterdam’s official city Free Canal Cruise card since 1966. With the City Card, you get free access to over 70 museums & attractions, citywide public transport and Discount Canal Cruise canal cruises. Enjoy the city and the region even further with our selected freebies and discounts. This guide offers a complete list of the museums, attractions, Map transport and cruises that are free or discounted with your card. Each number in this guide corresponds Unforeseen circumstances might cause a change in this list. You to a number on the map. will always find an up to date list oniamsterdam.com/citycard or in the City Card app. • Front of the map = Amsterdam • Back of the map = Amsterdam Area We hope you have a wonderful time in Amsterdam! 2 3 photo Hans Guldemond Timeslots For some museums or attractions you are required to book a Using your City Card timeslot before your visit. You can find information on for which Activating your Card locations this is mandatory on iamsterdam.com/citycard. Your City Card is activated when you first use it. If you, for example, chose a validity of 24 hours, it will run out 24 hours Surcharges after activating it. Please note that you may be required to pay a supplement to visit special exhibitions in museums and for special boat tours. The card can be activated any time before 31 December 2022 and is then valid for the number of hours you purchased. Information & help desk If you have any questions or problems regarding your City Card, Using your Card come see us at our I amsterdam Store inside Amsterdam Central • To visit a museum or attraction, show your card at the ticket Station (check the current opening hours on iamsterdam.com/ counter. You can use your Card only once in each participating visitorcentre) or reach out to us at [email protected]. location. • You can take in Amsterdam, Haarlem, one free canal cruise Terms & Conditions Volendam and the Zaanse Schans. Choose one of the boarding The City Card is strictly for the use of individual cardholders. locations indicated on the map and show your Card at the Once activated, it is non-transferable and cannot be shared. ticket counter. You can find the most up to date list of boarding No refunds are provided on City Cards that have been purchased, lost or locations and the departure times on stolen. For more information about using your City Card, please read the iamsterdam.com/citycard Terms & Conditions on iamsterdam.com/citycard. or in the app. • Use your free access to citywide public transport by simply Disclaimer checking in and out with your Card on every journey. All GVB amsterdam&partners accepts no liability for any losses or expenses (blue and white) buses, trams and metros are included. incurred as a result of the use of the City Card. amsterdam&partners is • Get your at any participating location by not liable for third parties that refuse to honour the City Card offers or for freeby or discount expenses incurred as a result of this refusal. The information provided has showing your Card at the counter or when you're placing your been compiled with the utmost care. amsterdam&partners accepts no booking. liability for inaccuracies or incomplete information. 4 5 Get the free I amsterdam City Card app and make it even easier photo Koen Smilde to explore the city! android Browse through the list of museums and attractions and get suggestions based on your preferences. Save your favourite locations and Public transport simply click on them to find them on the map. in Amsterdam Stay up to date as to for which locations you are required to book a timeslot before your visit. iOS With the I amsterdam City Card, you can use Amsterdam’s citywide public transport for free. That means any GVB (blue and white) bus, tram or metro. Night buses are also included, but don’t forget that trams and metros stop running after 00:30. You can also use the ferries – they’re free for everyone. Make sure to check in and out for each journey by simply holding your Card up to the card reader. On your first trip, your Card is automatically activated and will be valid for the number of hours you purchased. Public transport in the Amsterdam Area Planning to explore the region? Public transport outside of Amsterdam is not included in your City Card. You can purchase additional public transport tickets at the I amsterdam Store (inside Amsterdam Central Station), like the Amsterdam & Region Travel Ticket (ARTT) – a great way to discover the Amsterdam Area! 6 7 1. Allard Pierson - Collections of the University of Amsterdam E6 Make sure to book your From the Nile to the river timeslot when Amstel: travel through required. 10,000 years of cultural See page 5 for history. Start off in ancient more info. Egypt and end up in the creative industries of modern Amsterdam. Oude Turfmarkt 127 www.allardpierson.nl 2. Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot One of the best-preserved Medieval castles you'll come across. Beautiful gardens surround the castle and within its walls, a national museum, Museums awe-inspiring 17th-century style rooms, a collection of arms and Take the armour await your visit. free ferry to Muiderslot Herengracht 1, Muiden see no. www.muiderslot.nl 87 3. Amsterdam Museum E5 Eager to brush up on your historical knowledge of the city? Look no further than the Amsterdam Museum. This orphanage-turned-museum showcases the story of Amsterdam through thousands of historical objects and artworks. photo Koen Smilde Kalverstraat 92 www.amsterdammuseum.nl 8 9 4. Amsterdam Pipe Museum D7 7. ARTIS-Micropia H6 This museum is the custodian Visit Micropia, the only museum of cultural traditions around of microbes, and discover an pipe smoking. A wide collection invisible world right in the center of pipes are displayed, ranging of Amsterdam. Learn about mi- from pre-Columbian times, crobes in your own body through 2,500 years ago, to the utmost the means of a body scan, and artworks in pipe design from come to understand more about the 19th and 20th century. these highly successful life forms. Prinsengracht 488 Artisplein, Plantage Kerklaan 38-40 www.pipemuseum.nl www.micropia.nl 5. Amsterdam Tulip Museum D4 8. Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen C8 Learn all about the The Cobra Museum in Netherlands’ most famous Amstelveen shows modern flower. Experience the history and contemporary art of of the tulip, from its origins on international allure. The the windswept mountains of permanent collection in- Central Asia to the worldwide cludes works of Karel Appel, phenomenon it is today. Corneille and Asger Jorn. Prinsengracht 116 Sandbergplein 1, Amstelveen www.amsterdamtulipmuseum.com www.cobra-museum.nl 6. ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo H6 9. Diamond Museum Amsterdam D8 Enjoy ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Discover 400 years of diamond Zoo and experience nature right history in Europe’s only Diamond in the center of the city. Visit Museum and find out why the Planetarium, the Butterfly Amsterdam is called the “City of Pavilion, admire the botanical Diamonds”. The museum takes you garden and the centuries-old on a journey that starts 3 billion years trees, and take a restful break at ago, 200 km below your feet and the café-restaurant. ends up in the ring on your finger. Plantage Kerklaan 38-40 Paulus Potterstraat 2-8 www.artis.nl diamonds-amsterdam.com 10 11 10. Dutch Fortress Museum Naarden - Vesting 13. Frans Hals Museum Get an amazing inside look Admire the largest and most in the defence works that famous collection of portraits protected the richness of by Frans Hals and enjoy Holland in the 17th-century other Haarlem masterpieces Dutch Golden Age at the of the Golden Age. Dutch Fortress Museum. A surcharge may apply during special exhibitions. Westwalstraat 6, Naarden Groot Heiligland 62, Haarlem www.fortressmuseum.com www.franshalsmuseum.nl 11. Eye Filmmuseum F2 14. Geelvinck Pianola Museum D3 Dedicated to film, Eye offers This dainty museum is a exhibitions focusing on the hidden gem, reminiscent intersection of art and film. of the Roaring Twenties. Explore the exhibition and Discover the stories of the wander through the perma- piano and the so-called nent presentation Panorama. pianola, the self-playing piano A surcharge may apply during from the early 20th century. temporary exhibitions. IJpromenade 1 Westerstraat 106 www.eyefilm.nl www.geelvinck.nl 12. Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam E7 15. Grachtenmuseum Amsterdam - Museum of the Canals D6 Foam exhibits all facets of the Why are there canals? photographic medium: from And how did they built contemporary to historical canalhouses? Experience work and from fine art to 400 years of history in applied photography. World the multimediatour and famous photographers are discover the stories of the exhibited alongside young, canals in a 17th-century emerging artists. canalhouse! Keizersgracht 609 Herengracht 386 www.foam.org www.hetgrachtenhuis.nl 12 13 16.