All contemporary art museums to visit in Amsterdam

Experience the cutting-edge world of contemporary art at 15 museums in Amsterdam. These museums showcase works by modern artists, exploring current themes and innovative techniques.

Are you a fan of contemporary art? These are the best contemporary art museums in Amsterdam:

  1. EYE1

    EYE

     Amsterdam
    The EYE Film museum is housed in the iconic white building at the IJ. Everything is film in EYE. This national museum of film manages more than forty thousand movies and features every genre: a representative selection of movie history, with classics blockbusters and cult movies. It is a museum of f
  2. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam2

    Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

     Amsterdam
    The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is the must-see museum of modern and contemporary art and design. The collection is one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary art and design in the world. The most meaningful movements in both art and design are represented with (inter)national
  3. Fabrique des Lumières3

    Fabrique des Lumières

     Amsterdam
    Fabrique des Lumières brings art to life: the work of the greatest artists ever, combined with image and sound using new technology.
  4. Oude Kerk4

    Oude Kerk

     Amsterdam
    The Oude Kerk is the oldest building of Amsterdam and youngest place for contemporary art. Inside you can see site specific art exhibitions, period rooms and an impressive tombstone floor. The wife and muse of Rembrandt van Rijn, is one of the thousands of people who lies buried in the Oude Kerk
  5. Online discount!Moco Museum5

    Moco Museum

     Amsterdam
    The Moco museum (Modern Contemporary) in Amsterdam wants to make a wide range of modern and contemporary art available to the general public and focuses on the so-called ‘Rock Stars of Art’. Don’t be suprised if you find works of Salvador Dali, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Damien Hir
  6. Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography6

    Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

     Amsterdam
    Amsterdam’s 1st Museum for Photography. Two monumental canal houses to feel at home. Exhibiting the artistic nature of photography, fourteen exhibition spaces, bookshop, library and garden. Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography is housed in a monumental canal house from 1665. It is the first muse
  7. Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art7

    Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art

     Amsterdam
    Museum of the Mind is fascinated by the work of art inside your head. Because nothing is as diverse, unique, powerful and yet so fragile as the human mind. Through its art and cultural programmes, the museum helps to bring mental health and neurodiversity into the open. Museum van de Geest | Outside
  8. Frankendael House8

    Frankendael House

     Amsterdam
    Huize Frankendael is the only remaining ‘buitenplaats’ in Watergraafsmeer. Huize Frankendael combines space, peace, culture, nature and gastronomy. It includes an English styled garden, an authentic carriage house and art exhibitions in ‘landhuis’ Frankendael. On Sunday, tours are organised to learn
  9. P/////AKT9

    P/////AKT

     Amsterdam
  10. Nxt Museum10

    Nxt Museum

     Amsterdam
  11. Project Space On The Inside11

    Project Space On The Inside

     Amsterdam
    ‘On The Inside’ is an independent and international platform for contemporary art situated within the cultural landscape of Amsterdam’s NDSM wharf, just 10 minutes from Central Station via the free ferry. It operates as a non-profit, artist-driven exhibition space. Housed in a converted warehouse wi
  12. De Appel12

    De Appel

     Amsterdam
    The Appel Arts Centre is an internationally oriented arts centre located in an 18th century building near the water. It exhibits contemporary art in all its forms, often by artists who are little known. Through changing exhibitions and performances of artists, directors and choreographers, De Appel
  13. Biblical Museum13

    Biblical Museum

     Amsterdam
    The Bijbels Museum makes temporary, travelling exhibitions which we present in collaboration with/at many different locations in The Netherlands, museums, churches or other public venues. All exhibitions have a connection to the Bible of biblical stories. Most of them reach out to other spiritual bo
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    Street Art Museum Amsterdam

     Amsterdam
    Street Art Museum Amsterdam organizes tours through the street art collection.
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    OSCAM - Open Space Contemporary Art Museum

     Amsterdam