Ready-made walk · Amsterdam

Rembrandt's Amsterdam and the Plantage

7 stops · ~3 hr · 2.2 km

History

Begin at the Waag, the old weigh house linked to Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson, then pass the Zuiderkerk to the house where Rembrandt lived and worked. Continue to the seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue and into the green Plantage district, with the Hortus Botanicus, Micropia and Artis, the city's historic zoo.

The stops, in walking order

iDejonkheer (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Stop 1: Artis
~3 min here
Artis is Amsterdam’s zoo and botanical garden, and it is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands still operating.
iNadine Ranger (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Stop 2: Micropia
~1 hr here
Micropia is a museum that brings the hidden world of microbes into public view, treating microscopic life as essential rather than simply threatening.
iShadowgate from Novara, ITALY (CC BY 2.0)
Stop 3: Hortus Botanicus
~3 min here
Hortus Botanicus is Amsterdam’s botanical garden, a living collection of tropical and native plants in the Plantage district.
iMassimo Catarinella (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Stop 4: Portugese Synagoge
~15 min here
The Portugese Synagoge is an active Orthodox Jewish house of worship, completed in 1675 and also known as the Esnoga or Snoge.
i14:43, 17 October 2006 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Stop 5: Rembrandthuis
~1 hr here
Rembrandthuis is a museum in the former home of the painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
ibureau Monumenten & Archeologie (bMA) (Attribution)
Stop 6: Zuiderkerk
~3 min here
Zuiderkerk is a former Protestant church, and it carries an unusual distinction: it was Amsterdam’s first church designed specifically for Protestant worship.
iPatrick Verdier (Copyrighted free use)
Stop 7: Waag
~3 min here
Waag is the substantial stone building anchoring Nieuwmarkt, and its story begins not as a market hall but as a defended entrance to Amsterdam.