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Best Offbeat Museums
Amsterdam Tattoo Museum
Eye-popping array of inky artefacts, including pickled skin
from 19th-century sailors. (
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Kattenkabinet
A creaky old canal house filled with kitty-cat art, including a Picasso. (
Houseboat Museum
Get a feel for the compact, watery lifestyle aboard a 23m-long sail-
ing barge. (
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Tassenmuseum Hendrikje
An entire museum devoted to handbags, from 16th-century
goatskin pouches to Madonna's modern arm candy. (
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Electric Ladyland
Prepare for a trippy time at the world's first museum of fluorescent
art. (
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Best Canal-House Museums
Het Grachtenhuis
Walks you through the history of the 400-year-old waterways. (
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Museum Van Loon
Opulent old manor whispers family secrets in its shadowy rooms. (
Museum Willet-Holthuysen
Sumptuous paintings, china and a French-style garden with
sundial. (
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Best Underappreciated Museums
Tropenmuseum
A whopping collection of ritual masks, spiky spears and other colonial
booty. (
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Het Scheepvaartmuseum
The Maritime Museum features ancient globes, spooky ship
figureheads and a replica schooner to climb. (
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Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
Looks like an ordinary canal house, but hides a
relic-rich 17th-century church inside. (
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