Best places: Museums in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Offbeat urban museum housing modern & vintage pinball machines, including some that can be played.

Colorful rooms, free breakfast & an outdoor pool in an informal hotel in a former cruise ship.

Restored Gothic church with exhibits about the building's history & guided tower climbs Apr–Oct.

Long-standing, modest botanical garden with many tree species, water features & a tea house.

Furnished house with models, photos & computers explaining architect Piet Blom's cube project.

Striking steel & glass museum hosting a program of temporary art, design & photography exhibitions.

1933 home noted for its modernist architecture, with free audio tours of its period interiors.

👍👍 Pity it's open only one day a month but a great place to visit, also with children of course. And great compliments to the volunteers who run the museum.

Museum exploring the history of the Marine Corps through exhibits of uniforms, equipment & photos.

Vintage ships & historic port models, plus hands-on kids' exhibits in a multimedia maritime museum.

😠 A real disappointment... The outside looks stunning but there is nothing inside to see except 1 painting and they dare charging 20€. A shame! All paintings are stored in a room you cannot even access....

Contemporary information center with interactive displays, art exhibits & tours of Rotterdam Port.

🫤 Definitely not worth the price. I expected something like Teamlab in Tokyo, instead we got four rooms with an incohesive story, where the part, coincidently the one from which most of the promotion material is taken from, was the last 5 minutes of the one hour programme.

More than 1800 objects from around the world, including temporary exhibitions, plus a restaurant.

Whale & elephant skeletons to insect fossils & plant exhibits in elegant natural history museum.

👍👍 The best value museum in Rotterdam, and the most fascinating collection. Even if you are not into chess, there is something to amuse or delight you here. In the shade of the famous Cube Houses, on the beautifully kept overpass, there is a building that looks like a shop, but is in fact a museum. For...

👍👍 Time travel back into 19th century Holland

👍👍 Cubism ;)

👍 Attended a good architecture lecture here.. nice venue

👍👍 The former cruise ship S.S Rotterdam retired in September 2000 after 40 years of travelling between Holland and Amerika. Since then the cruise is a hotel & event location. There are also guided tours and there is an escape room. We did the all-in guided tour where you get several tours and you can...