Join us and stay awhile in the city of Amsterdam before or after your journey on the Rhine River or the Dutch & Belgian Waterways. Discover one of the fascinating collections below in your free time when you reserve our optional land package in Amsterdam. Or ensure you can visit all of the museums by asking your travel advisor to add extra hotel nights to your reservation so you can explore at your leisure.

RIJKSMUSEUM

After the Anne Frank House, the Rijksmuseum is Amsterdam’s most popular museum and houses many masterpieces of native sons like Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer. Find such paintings as Rembrandt’s The Night Watch and The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild, known as The Syndics; Vermeer’s The Milkmaid; Frans Hal’s A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, known as The Merry Drinker; and even a few works by Vincent van Gogh, including a self-portrait of the artist. Along with magnificent art, the building itself has been listed as a national heritage site since 1970 and named one of the Dutch Heritage Sites in 1990. Other highlights of the museum include a library and restaurant.

VAN GOGH MUSEUM

If you love Vincent van Gogh, the post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art, be sure to visit the museum that houses the world's largest collection of his works. The Van Gogh Museum is one of the world’s 25 most popular museums. In it you’ll find priceless works of art, including numerous paintings and sketches. Although van Gogh only painted for the last decade or so of his life, he was a prolific artist with roughly 2,100 works—including letters. Find masterpieces like Sunflowers, along with many self-portraits. In addition, you can also see the works of many other artists here, including Monet, Manet, Gaugin and Toulouse-Lautrec.