Museum Ons'Lieve Heer Op Solder

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10 expert reviews

“With its elegant gray-and-white facade and spout gable, this appears to be just another lovely 17th-century canal house, and on the lower floors it is.”

– Fodor's

Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"What looks like an ordinary canal house turns out to have an entire Catholic church stashed inside." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"Originally known as the Museum Amstelkring, this place is a well-kept secret." Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"Though Amsterdam's been known as a tolerant city for many centuries, after the 1578 Protestant Alteratie (Changeover), Roman Catholics fell into disfavor." Full review
Let's Go Let's Go
"The Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder (“Our Lord in the Attic”) museum commemorates a beautiful Catholic church that was built…in an attic." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"This canal house looks like all the others, but it hides a secret: a concealed Catholic church, built in the 17th-century in Calvinist Amsterdam, when Catholics could not be open about their religion." Full review
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