With an average of 850 millimeters of rain every year, it is a good idea to have some indoor options during one of these rainy days. Below we have listed the top 5 musea in Rotterdam.
1:Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is a museum for visual arts. There are collections in the museum of fine art, applied art and design. In the museum you can find Dutch and European pieces, from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century. You can find masterpieces from Dalí, Van Bosch, Rembrandt and van Gogh.
01 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Foto. Studio Hans Wilschut.
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday till Sunday: 11:00 – 17:00
Prices:
Adults: € 15,00
Students: € 7,50
Children up to 18 years: Free
Website: www.boijmans.nl
2:Kunsthal Rotterdam
The Kunsthal Rotterdam, opened in 1992, is an exhibition space in Rotterdam. The building is located in the Museum Park. The Kunsthal Rotterdam is known for the modern architecture of the building, designed by architect Rem Koolhaas. The Kunsthal shows various exhibitions from old masters to contemporary art.
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday till Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00
Prices:
Adults: € 12,00
Youth 6 to 18 years of age: € 2,00
Children up to 5 years of age: Free
Museum Card, Rotterdam Pass: Free
Website: www.kunsthal.nl
3:Maritiem Museum
The Maritime Museum is a shipping and port museum with a large collection of historic ships. This age-old collection illustrates Dutch maritime history and its influence on contemporary life. The Maritime Museum also has a special children exhibit. In the exhibit ‘Professor Splash’, children aged from 4 to 10 can join in exciting adventures in the wonderful port world of Professor Splash and his friends. As they play, they learn all sorts of things about various types of ships, working in the port, navigation and how products such as their own toys are transported by ship from all over the world to the Netherlands.
Maritiem Museum, Vuurtoren in de Maritiem Museum Haven, Foto door. Marc van der Stelt
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday till Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00
Sunday: 11:00 – 17:00
Prices:
Adults: € 12,50
Children aged from 4 to 15 years: € 9,00
Children under the age of 4: Free
Students: €9,00
Museum Card or Rotterdam Pass: Free
Website: www.maritiemmuseum.nl
4:Museum Rotterdam
In Museum Rotterdam historical pieces and new heritage tell the story of Rotterdam and the Rotterdammers in unexpected combinations. For more than a hundred years, pieces have been collected that tell a story about the city. The pieces that have been found are very diverse but definitely worth looking at.
Museum Rotterdam also has another location where you can view the exhibition ’40 -’45 NU. This exhibition is all about the Second World War and in particular what the bombing has done with the city.
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday till Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00
Sunday: 11:00 – 17:00
Prices:
Adults: € 7,50
Youth 4-17 year: € 2,50
Student:€ 3,75
Group (>15 persons):€ 3,75
Website: www.museumrotterdam.nl
5:Wereldmuseum
The Wereldmuseum is a museum about different cultures in the past and present. There are more than 1800 exhibits with objects from different cultures such as Asia, Oceania, Africa, the Americas and Islamic heritage. The objects were collected in 160 years by citizens of Rotterdam. The building and the collection of the Wereldmuseum are both literally a ‘product’ of the city, its history and mentality.
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday till Sunday: 10:30 – 17:30
Prices:
Adults: € 15,00
Children under 13 years: Free
Museumcard or Rotterdampas: Free
Website: www.wereldmuseum.nl