Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam vs Museum Het Rembrandthuis
Both Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Rembrandt House are rated very highly by travel writers. On balance, Rembrandt House is preferred by most professionals compared to Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Rembrandt House has a TripExpert Score of 94 with accolades from 9 publications like Travel + Leisure, Time Out and Lonely Planet.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam , The Netherlands
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Fodor's
"Amsterdam's celebrated treasurehouse of modern art, the Stedelijk finally reopened (in September 2012) following a massive refurbishment of this wedding-cake Neo-Renaissance structure."
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Concierge
"To our surprise, it's a great backdrop for the Stedelijk's temporary exhibits and permanent collection from Dutch Stijl through the Cobra movement."
Lonely Planet
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"Built in 1895 to a neo-Renaissance design by AM Weissman, the Stedelijk Museum is the permanent home of the National Museum of Modern Art."
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Time Out
"The Stedelijk Museum, with its incredibe bath-shaped extension, is Amsterdam's go-to institution for modern and contemporary art."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Let's start with the wide-angle view: what can we expect from this place?After a stylish renovation in 2012, the original 19th-century museum added a brilliantly odd extension—known by..."
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Museum Het Rembrandthuis
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Jodenbreestraat 4, 1011 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Fodor's
"This is the house that Rembrandt bought, flush with success, for 13,000 guilders (a princely sum) in 1639, and where he lived and worked until 1656 when declared bankrupt."
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Frommer's
"In this house (ca. 1606), you get a more intimate sense of Rembrandt -- it's a shrine to one of the greatest artists the world has ever known."
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Lonely Planet
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"You almost expect to find the master himself at the Museum het Rembrandthuis , where Rembrandt van Rijn ran the Netherlands’ largest painting studio."
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Time Out
"When he was declared bankrupt, clerks inventoried the house room by room; it's these records that provided the renovators with clues as to what the house looked like in Rembrandt's time."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"No oil paintings on display—go to the Rijksmuseum if that's what you're after—but plenty of his groundbreaking etchings."
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