Amsterdam City Card: Explore Museums & More

Explore Amsterdam with the official I amsterdam City Card. Enjoy complimentary entry to renowned museums and attractions, unlimited use of the city’s public transport, and a free canal cruise.

Duration: 5 days
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Rijksmuseum - Rijksmuseum
  • A’dam Lookout - Experience the most breathtaking view of Amsterdam and its surroundings
  • ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo - Wander through the shaded trees, marvel at the variety of plants and animals, explore the stars, and appreciate our heritage. Visit ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo to experience nature in the heart of…
What's Included
  • Free entrance to over 70 museums and attractions
  • Unlimited use of GVB public transport
  • Free 24h bike rental
  • One free canal cruise
  • 25% discount at participating attractions
  • Detailed city map
What's Not Included
  • Train ticket from Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam Central Station
  • Van Gogh and Anne Frank museum
Additional Information
  • Once the card is activated (from the first time it is used), it is then valid for the consecutive hours shown on your card
  • All locations included can only be visited one time
  • Please be aware that you need to book a time slot for some of the City Card venues. For more detailed info per venue please go to, choose the venue you’d like to visit and see…
Location
Rijksmuseum
Museumstraat 1
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Caitlin
Aug 30, 2025
An absolute essential for exploring this beautiful city! - This card was an absolute joy to use all over Amsterdam. When you see how much each individual attraction, museum and the cost of public transport. Buying this card is a HUGE saving for a long weekend trip like we had. I went with my mum (we are both adults but Tripadvisor wouldn’t let me choose that as an option when writing this review). It made travelling around and exploring this amazing, beautiful city so much easier and affordable than it would have been if we had paid for each aspect of our trip individually. I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest to anyone that buying an I Amsterdam card is an essential part of your trip/break to Amsterdam.
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Marie-cécile
Sep 7, 2024
City card a real comfort - Very popular map for the diversity of places offered. All unlimited transport in the city, real comfort. For a first visit, I highly recommend the city card I Amsterdam.
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F7016frangelab
Jul 22, 2024
Many museums, public transport and Things to do - If you not only want to shop, but also like to visit museums, the I amsterdam city card is an interesting way to see many great things. So you can also just take a look at a museum and see if you like it. In addition, some Things to do (canal tour, bicycle rental) are included in the price. Public transport in the city is included.
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J7419qktomh
Jul 1, 2024
Great Value - Upon arriving in Amsterdam from our cruise ship, we went to the huge train station and found the tourist store where we could pick up our cards. We also received a booklet detailing all the features of the card and a handy map to negotiate the city with the tram lines clearly marked. We had bought the cards online before traveling to Amsterdam and selected to have an actual card rather than use the app. We purchased the five-day card and found it to be very valuable and the cost of the card at least matched the services we received. The most important feature is that the trams are included with the card so you can hop on and off the trams, flash your card, and not have to stop and buy a ticket or to buy an all-day pass each new day. Very convenient since the easiest way to get around is the trams which are easy to use and plot how to get to where you want to go. Here is what we redeemed with our card: a free ride on a canal tour boat, free admission to the Rijksmuseum (Vermeers and Rembrandts!), the House Boat Museum (actually very interesting and informative), Dutch Resistance Museum (very well done and a sobering tour of the devastation of the Nazis), Portuguese Synagogue, the Canal House (ordinary), a discount at the Heineken Experience (lots of campy fun and two glasses of delicious, cold beer), and journeyed out of town to Harleem for a free admission to the Hals Museum and later an all day trip to the Zuiderzee Museum (beautiful train ride and interesting living museum). I’m telling you – this is a great deal!
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Walker62
Jun 14, 2024
Handy Card - We purchased this card before our trip to Amsterdam. We purchased the physical card in case our phones did not work as expected. We picked the card up at the IAmsterdam store in Central Station. The store is located in the shopping strip area along the back ( water side ) of the station. It was quick and easy. The card worked great, we went to several museums, the zoo , top of the ADam building , the Horticultural museum/gardens, had a great canal ride, and lots of trips on the tram - all included. Well worth the money if you are going to be in Amsterdam for a few days.
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Stevejohnx
Nov 28, 2023
If you like museums, get this card - This great card gets you Metro, tram and bus services as well as free or discounted entry into museums, We really abused it and for the 5 day (125E) pass, we got entry into loads of places that had a face value of over 185E, so saved 60E and got free transport! Win-Win
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20andreas12
Sep 9, 2025
Worth to buy - We book the card for 5 days and make our life easier. Transportations with Metro within Amsterdam was free, same many good entertainments (This is Holland, Amsterdam Lookout, Ferry Cruise) and museums (Rijksmuseum, Moco, Nemo). Also there is discount for Madame Tussauds, Body worlds and many other museums/entertainments. Same we used the card for all the museums /attractions in Zaanse Schans village. Value for money for those they want to see and do many things,.
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522amethystj
Dec 28, 2025
NOT WORTH IT- I am Amsterdam city card - We opted for the 24hr I am Amsterdam City card thinking it was the best deal as it has free access to the Ruks museum and 69 other main museums and public transport and free canal cruise. We thought we could at least squeeze in to see 3musuems as we started at 8am in Ruks musuem. Took us sometime to get in because the codes from the I am Amsterdam city card weren't scanning in the museum and the staff wasn't able to help cause they had no idea how to fix it either. We were able to suss this out ourselves after googling it The museum was huge and there was so much to see, we ended up spending 4 hours there alone. The ones I wanted to see was the Rembrandt and Van Gogh exhibit which I thought had an extensive display of their works. It didn't. You can only visit this museum or any attraction once for that day unless you buy another ticket. And since most museums here close at 5 or 5:30 that means we won't have enough time to visit any of them unless we skip lunch and soldier on to the next. So that means we weren't able to maximise the value of the I am Amsterdam city card. If you're hotel is far from the museums, this will be helpful to use for public transport. Otherwise, in my opinion, just buy they ticket for the Ruks museum if that's all you'd like to see. It's €25 each and best to spend most of your day there if not then whole day to see everything from top to bottom. Or just purchase tickets for museums you really want to visit while your in Amsterdam. Otherwise, this city card doesn't really give much bang to your buck.
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Lindagr2573my
Dec 14, 2025
Scam, won't save any money - A complete con. Website says access to attractions. The first three we tried to get access to all said we needed to buy tickets and the card only gave us a discount. We also tried the Body World museum and they said it wasn't included at all despite the website saying otherwise. Utter scam and would be impossible to actually save any money. Not transparent at all
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Broudic
Apr 9, 2025
Big problem of securing the City Card - We have two city cards for 4 days (expensive) with only one order number, we were not able to activate them on the app. We have had "physical" city cards that are non-nominal, non-secure. We lost one, impossible to replace, the reception at the Amsterdam station office was horrible when we reported it, no recourse, we had to buy a card, very very bad deal!
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