Free audio walk in Amsterdam
The Museum Quarter
- 60 min
- 2.2 km
- 11 stops
- Free
Starts at Museumstraat 1
About this walk
Past the museums of the Museumplein, with a hidden hatch in a cycle tunnel and a swimming pool in a former cycling school.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
The Museum Quarter
A neighbourhood that rose from a meadow in a single generation.
- 2Stop 2
The Rijksmuseum
A museum that began as a house move, with a secret hatch above the cyclists.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
Het Zuiderbad
A swimming pool inside a former cycling school, with a basin that sits right on top of the floor.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
Demonstrations on the Museumplein
Four hundred thousand people on a single square, and a twist that only surfaced years later.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Monument to the Women of Ravensbrück
Eleven steel plates around a column that sends light and sound into the sky.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
Het Concertgebouw
A golden lyre on the roof and Aretha Franklin in the Grote Zaal.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
Van Gogh Museum
A ladder against the roof, two canvases gone, and fourteen years later back from Naples.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
The Stedelijk Museum
The bathtub of Museumplein, and the exhibition that put Van Gogh on the map.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
The Diamond Museum
The most famous diamond in the world was deemed too precious to make the journey to Amsterdam.
Read the story - 10Stop 10
House of Bols
Liqueur as a by-product of the Dutch East India Company, from a little shed dating back to 1575.
Read the story - 11Stop 11
The PC Hooftstraat
Seventy metres on seven-centimetre heels, down the most expensive street in the country.
Read the story
Ready when you are
Walk The Museum Quarter with ROODS.
11 stops through Amsterdam, about 60 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
