Hours and admission

The museum is open from 10 AM to 5 PM from Tuesday to Sunday. The museum is also open on Mondays during school vacations and on various holidays. This means that we are open on the following Mondays: 

• Spring holidays: 17 and 24 February 2025
• Easter: 21 April 2025
• May holiday: 28 April 2025
• Liberation day: 5 May 2025
• Pentecost: 9 June 2025
• Summer holidays: 7, 14, 21, 28 July and 4, 11, 18 and 25 August 2025
• Autumn holidays: 13 and 20 October 2025
• Christmas holidays: 22 and 29 December 2025

The museum is closed on:

• 1 January (New Year's Day)
• 27 April (King's Day), please note that in 2025, King's Day falls on 26 April. So 26 April 2025 we will be closed.
• 25 December (Christmas Day)

The museum café is open every day during the summer holidays, except Monday 24 August 2025.

* Discount or free admission only upon presentation of the relevant discount card. This card must be shown physically. Student ID and/or enrollment may be shown digitally.

** Stadspas: With the Stadspas, you can visit the museum for free once a week.

We sell the Museum card at the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.

• Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
• Special rules apply to (school) groups. These are issued when the booking is made.
• Pets are not permitted.
• Visitors with a youth ticket are expected to provide proof of age when entering the museum.
• Students are expected to show a valid (digital) student card when entering the museum.
• Holders of a CJP (school pupils’ culture) card, annual Museum Card, friends of the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam card, ICOM card, I amsterdam City Card, Rembrandt Association card, VriendenLoterij VIP card are requested to show their card when entering the museum.

Read our General terms and conditions here.