Permanent
Gallery of Honour
The long second-floor hall containing the seventeenth-century masters — Vermeer, de Hooch, Hals and the central Rembrandt wall.
Welcome to the Museumplein
Opening hours, recommended routes through the galleries, what families and groups should know, and the quiet hours that turn a busy weekend into a calm afternoon.
Inside the museum
A short overview of the permanent collection highlights and the current temporary exhibitions on Museumplein, with the wing each is shown in.
The long second-floor hall containing the seventeenth-century masters — Vermeer, de Hooch, Hals and the central Rembrandt wall.
A temporary exhibition exploring transformation in classical and Dutch Golden Age art — on view until 25 May 2026.
Quiet hours, family routes, dedicated children’s tour booklets and where to find the family table on the lower floor.
Daily Dutch and English guided walks of the highlights of the permanent collection. Most tours leave from the central atrium at the top of the hour.
The four exterior gardens around the building are free to enter and open year-round — one of the calmest places to read on Museumplein.
Cloakroom, two cafés, a research library reading-room, and the museum shop on the ground floor near the main entrance.
Before you arrive
A few practical notes that make the difference between a hurried stop and a calm visit. Most visitors stay between two and three hours.
Wednesday and Thursday mornings between 09:00 and 11:00 are reliably calm; weekends and school holidays are the busiest.
Tram 2 and 12 stop at “Rijksmuseum”. From Centraal Station the walk through the Museum District takes about 25 minutes.
All public galleries are accessible by lift. Wheelchairs and folding stools may be borrowed at the cloakroom on a first-come basis.