Amsterdam Museum Kalverstraat

About halfway down on Kalverstraat on number 92 lies Amsterdam Museum Kalverstraat. Since 1975 the Amsterdam Museum has been located in a spectacular building on the Kalverstraat, where in the Middle Ages Saint Lucien’s Monastery was situated and in 1578 the City Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis) was established. The orphanage was home to thousands of children between 1580 and 1960, many of whom had lost their parents to the plague.

In the monumental Amsterdam Museum building, you will discover the story of Amsterdam through a large number of masterpieces, such as an aerial map from the Middle Ages and George Henrik Breitner‘s The Dam. In this museum, you’ll get to see, read about, hear and experience how the city has developed.

The Amsterdam DNA presentation offers a captivating, one-hour overview of the history of Amsterdam based on interactive images, sounds, movement and sp,specially selected objects. Based on the four core values of entrepreneurship, free-thinking, citizenship, and creativity, and divided into seven periods, you will learn all about this city’s fascinating story.

The  Civic Guards Gallery (Schuttersgalerij), a covered street leading from Begijnensteeg to the museum, is one of the few freely accessible museum streets in the world. Original group portraits, made between 1530 and 2007 by artists such as Bartholomeus van der Helst and Erwin Olaf, hang in the gallery.

Several exciting temporary exhibitions and events are usually related to the city’s rich and enchanting history like the exhibition devoted to the artists Ferdinand Bol (1616‑1680) and Govert Flinck (1615‑1660).