All contemporary art museums to visit in North Holland

Experience the cutting-edge world of contemporary art at 26 museums in North Holland. 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 North Holland:

  1. Frans Hals Museum (Groot Heiligland 62)1

    Frans Hals Museum (Groot Heiligland 62)

     Haarlem
    The Frans Hals Museum is Haarlem’s museum of fine art. Home to the world’s biggest collection of Frans Hals's paintings, alongside works by famous Haarlem artists such as Judith Leyster, Cornelis van Haarlem and Jacob van Ruisdael. And discover also the museum’s rich collection of art from the 1880s
  2. Zuiderzee Museum2

    Zuiderzee Museum

     Enkhuizen
    The Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen brings stories of the people who once lived on the shores of the Zuiderzee to life. Discover the everyday life round the Zuiderzee as it was before the Afsluitdijk (the great IJsselmeer Barrier Dam) turned the former inland sea into what we now know as the IJsselmee
  3. EYE3

    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
  4. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam4

    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
  5. Fabrique des Lumières5

    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.
  6. Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys6

    Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys

     Haarlem
    Museum of the Mind has two locations; one in Haarlem and one in Amsterdam. In the museum in Haarlem you can discover more about your own mind and those of others in an interactive way. In Amsterdam you can see exhibitions with outsider art, in which artists show their imaginative inner world. In th
  7. Oude Kerk7

    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
  8. Cobra Museum8

    Cobra Museum

     Amstelveen
    The Cobra Museum is a museum of modern art. The permanent collection primarily consists of works by members of the Cobra movement. It includes works by Karel Appel, Constant and Corneille. The Cobra Collection of the Cobra Museum is one of the most important in the world. The main goal of the museum
  9. Museum Kranenburgh9

    Museum Kranenburgh

     Bergen (NH)
    Museum Kranenburgh is housed in ‘Huis Kranenburgh’ from 1882. It is a museum of visual arts. The collection consists of paintings and graphic art by artists from the so-called Bergen School. The collection includes works by Else Berg, Henri Le Fauconnier, Dirk Filarski, Leo Gestel, Mommie Schwarz an
  10. Online discount!Moco Museum10

    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
  11. Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography11

    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
  12. Kunsthuis Waterland12

    Kunsthuis Waterland

     Purmerend
    Kunsthuis Waterland shows approximately six exhibitions a year. There is also an art loan and a design shop.
  13. Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art13

    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
  14. Zandvoorts Museum14

    Zandvoorts Museum

     Zandvoort
    The Zandvoorts Museum is dedicated to the history and art of Zandvoort. The diverse collection includes paintings, furniture, old tools, glassware, pottery, costumes and old beachwear. The museum illustrates the development of Zandvoort from a poor fishing village to a posh seaside resort. The colle
  15. KathedraalMuseum15

    KathedraalMuseum

     Haarlem
    The Cathedral Museum is the continuation of the Treasury of the New Bavo. For now, this new museum space includes a large, attractively furnished exhibition hall, right under the high choir and accessible through the cathedral. In time, expansion will follow in the spaces under the ambulatory and be
  16. Frankendael House16

    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
  17. P/////AKT17

    P/////AKT

     Amsterdam
  18. Nxt Museum18

    Nxt Museum

     Amsterdam
  19. Project Space On The Inside19

    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
  20. Brinkhuis Laren20

    Brinkhuis Laren

     Laren (NH)
    The Brinkhuis in Laren (Nh) is a village hall with a cinema, theatre, (h)Art Gallery, library and exhibition spaces. Every day you can view the current exhibitions for free in both the foyers and the library. The exhibitions change regularly.
  21. Frans Hals Museum HAL (Grote Markt 16)21

    Frans Hals Museum HAL (Grote Markt 16)

     Haarlem
    The Frans Hals Museum is Haarlem’s museum of fine art. Home to the world’s biggest collection of Frans Hals's paintings, alongside works by famous Haarlem artists such as Judith Leyster, Cornelis van Haarlem and Jacob van Ruisdael. And discover also the museum’s rich collection of art from the 1880s
  22. De Appel22

    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
  23. Biblical Museum23

    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
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    Kunstcentrum De Kolk

     Spaarndam
    Art Center De Kolk is a place where artists and art lovers can meet and interact. From March through December, the gallery hosts monthly changing exhibitions of one or more artists. Usually a combination of work on the wall and spatial work.