Rijksmuseum Guided Tour: Exploring the Dutch Golden Age with Rembrandt and Frans Hals

Embark on a 120-minute guided tour of the Rijksmuseum and delve into the Dutch Golden Age with renowned artists Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Discover the captivating history, values, and beliefs of this era through their masterpieces.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Museumplein - Cobra Cafe at Museumplein is the meeting point.
  • Rijksmuseum - 2-hour guided tour inside the Rijksmuseum.
What's Included
  • Live tour guide of your chosen language
  • 2-hour guided tour through the permanent collection
  • Option: additional one-hour Frans Hals exhibition (self-guided)
  • Entrance ticket to the museum
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

During this 120-minute art tour, through the permanent collection in the Rijksmuseum, you will explore how the artists Rembrandt and Vermeer captured the incredible expansion of the Dutch Golden Age.

See the people, the objects, and the paintings that define this unprecedented era of Dutch history, and explore how the art reflects the changing values and beliefs of the republic.

Meet your guide at the Cobra Cafe at Museumplein. Right at the starting time of the tour, the guide will enter the museum with the group. People who are late will unfortunately loose their ticket, as the museum works with strict timeslots.

After the 2-hour guided tour inside the Rijksmuseum, you can stay as long as you wish, relax at the cafe or continuing appreciating the work of arts.

Frans Hals:
Between 16th of February and 9th of June 2024, you can choose to enter the Frans Hals exhibition (one-hour), continued by a two-hour guided tour in English through the permanent collection.

Location
Cobra Café
Hobbemastraat
Find your guide holding a 360 Amsterdam Tours sign outside the Cobra Cafe at Museumplein. The guide holds your entrance tickets, so you need to meet him at the meeting point. He will leave the meeting point at the starting time of the tour and after that it is no longer possible to join the tour.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Kurt_r
Sep 10, 2024
Informative and friendly - Our guide Daniel was very informative and friendly. He described the history of the museum and challenged us to look more deeply at some of the major works we viewed.
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Chrishughes
Sep 10, 2024
Reijksmuseum wonders - The expert guide supplied interesting information about the wel known and not so well known and not so well known paintings and their authors.
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Roving12680542142
Sep 10, 2024
Excellent tour of Rijksmuseum - Gosse who was our tour guide was very personable and well informed and the tour itself was interesting and varied. The arrangements for meeting up were clear and concise and I would say 2 hours was just about right.
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Bobbiel401
Sep 6, 2024
Lovely tour of the masters - Beautiful museum filled with treasured paintings of Dutch masters. Sadly The Night Watch was undergoing restoration and scaffolding partially obscured viewing the painting while we were visiting. Our guide (Wybe) was informative and entertaining. Definitely worth 2 hours of my time.
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William_p
Sep 6, 2024
Rijksmuseum small group tour - Our guide Daniel was amazing. He showed us all the important pieces and stayed just the right amount of time to enjoy it and still see so many pieces of art. Best tour we had all week that we were in Holland. We couldn’t believe 2 hours had gone by. Highly recommend!!! Thank you
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Steven
Sep 6, 2024
Guided tour of the Rijke Museum. - Last minute tour booking before we left the US. Tried to buy tickets to the Rijke museum for the day we were available before we boarded our cruise ship. They were sold out. Looked a bit further, and for not much more, we could get a 2 hour guided tour. What a great experience. The guide showed us the Dutch Masters and lot of info we would never got on our own. If you have been to a new museum, you know how overwhelming it can be. Where to start, What are the museums' best tresurers, how do we find them. We'll she looks us right to treasure and gave us all the details. Even knew where yo get my wife a traveling stool to make her visit the best!! There were many more things to explore the next time but this gave us the best experience.
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Shilpa_t
Sep 5, 2024
Great tour - Claire was informative, timely and friendly. She had great information and was a pleasure to do this tour with her
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B8898qkvincentg
Sep 5, 2024
Behind the paintings - Martinas gave us very good in depth detail of the painting process. I learned things that I had not understood before, and therefore had a better enjoyment of paintings
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Mickie_n
Sep 8, 2024
We were not able to go because of protests around the museum. - It is impossible to write a review because shortly before we were to meet at the museum, our guide called me to say that because of protests at the museum, they had closed down the museum and stopped all entrances and guided trips. He offered us another tour time but we had another tour planned for that time period, and the next time offered we would be flying back to US and home. He said that our money would be returned to my account.
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Marie_u
Sep 5, 2024
Guide wasn’t there did not see the museum - We did not find our guide therefore we were allowed in the museum! I paid over $300.00 dollars for nothing! I will never use or recommend Viator
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