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Amsterdam Map: Museum Willet-HolthuysenMuseum Willet-Holthuysen Frommer's Highly Recommended

Hours Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun 11am-5pm
Address Herengracht 605
Location Near the Amstel River
Transportation Tram: 4, 9, or 14 to Rembrandtplein
Phone 020/523-1822
Web site www.willetholthuysen.nl
Prices Admission 4€ ($5) adults, 3€ ($3.75) seniors, 2€ ($2.50) children 6-18, children under 6 free
Season Closed Jan 1, Apr 30, Dec 25

Frommer's Review

This museum affords another rare opportunity to visit an elegant 17th-century canal house with an ornamental garden. This house, built in 1687, was renovated several times before its last owner, Mrs. Willet-Holthuysen, willed her mansion and all its contents, including a fine-arts collection, to the city in 1885. Its various owner and servant quarters together tell a kind of Dutch Upstairs, Downstairs tale, allowing you to compare the glittering lifestyles of the wealthy and the ordinary folk who took care of them. Among the most interesting rooms: a Victorian-era bedroom on the second floor, a large reception room with tapestry wall panels, and an 18th-century basement kitchen that's still so completely furnished and functional you could swear the cook had merely stepped out to go shopping.

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