Top rated Museums in Zaanstad, Netherlands to elevate your visit (Updated December, 2023)

Top rated Museums in Zaanstad

Experience the best that Zaanstad has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 19 places from Museum category.

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De Zaanse Schans

Park

Riverside village with traditional windmills & workshops making wooden clogs, cheese & pewter goods.

4.70 (9.1K reviews) (~5.05 km from centre)

Wooden Shoe Workshop of Zaanse Schans

Tourist attraction

Traditional, family-run clog-making workshop with demonstrations, a museum & shop.

4.60 (6.7K reviews) (~4.95 km from centre)

Bakery Museum "The Gecroonde Duyvekater '

Museum

👍 This intimate museum dates from 1658. The original bakery, with its authentic bread oven and beautiful marbled floor, is full of tempting goodies. The name of the museum comes from the Duivekater, a famous Zaanse sweet bread. taste the Duivekater in the bakery, along with other traditional Dutch bak...

4.60 (251 reviews) (~4.82 km from centre)

NZH Transport Museum

Museum

👍👍 Visited the NZH Transport Museum today. What an incredibly fun experience! Beautiful old trams, buses, images and lots of information! Nice to be on buses again that I traveled with very often in my youth! What makes this museum so special are the volunteers. Lots of knowledge, enthusiastic about e...

4.60 (249 reviews) (~9.04 km from centre)

Stichting Industrieel Erfgoed Hoogovens (SIEHO)

Museum

👍👍 Terribly beautiful museum about the history of blast furnaces and steel making.

4.60 (120 reviews) (~8.78 km from centre)

Bezoekerscentrum Cacao de Zaan

Museum

👍👍 This museum is an absolute must visit if you are going to Zaanse Schans. It's not big but you will still be able to spend there an hour of your time as there are many items, each with its own unique story. Also, you can watch the cocoa movie and enjoy the cup of a fresh made chocolate milk. The peop...

4.60 (69 reviews) (~4.28 km from centre)

Museum of Humanity

Museum

👍👍 What a wonderful experience, a must see when you visit Zaandam or even when you are in the Netherlands it is worth the visit. A ferry brings you right there from Amsterdam. Of course you can go by bike or by car. Whichever road or path you choose, it'll be worth your time.

4.60 (56 reviews) (~6.69 km from centre)

Hanenpad lock

Historical landmark

👍 Fast service, but always, preferably one day in advance, call for service

4.60 (33 reviews) (~6.27 km from centre)

Zaandam Time Museum

Museum

👍👍 Zaandam was beautiful. Pictures can't capture all of its beauty. We took a taxi from Amersterdam, it cost €15 for 4 of us. It's free to enter, but there are options to climb some of the windmills for a fee. Parking is also available for a fee.

4.50 (818 reviews) (~4.62 km from centre)

Monet Atelier in Zaandam NL

Tourist attraction

👍👍 Nice place to see Monet art even if it's only replicas. The staff is kind and helpful to explain all the paint. They have nice postcards! Willing to come again if I'm in NL 🌿

4.50 (168 reviews) (~5.36 km from centre)

Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem

Museum

👍👍 A hall full of music: While barrel organs are not always appreciated on the street, they come into their own here in Haarlem. A collection of organs whose history goes back up to 100 years, and which are also excellently maintained. This way you hear and see the barrel organ not only as traditional...

4.50 (94 reviews) (~9.98 km from centre)

Honig Breethuis

Museum

👍👍 Nice view on how the rich lived a 150 years ago

4.50 (90 reviews) (~4.55 km from centre)

Stoomgemaal Halfweg

Museum

👍👍 Wat een fantastisch museum. Al diverse stoommachines gezien in mijn leven. Maar deze installatie is erg krachtig en goed onderhouden dus staat in mijn boek op nr 1. Je word ook graag extra toegelicht door de vele enthousiaste medewerkers/vrijwilligers

4.50 (85 reviews) (~8.32 km from centre)

Zaans Nature and Environment Center

Natural history museum

👍👍 Nice museum suitable for young and old. Where children (the elderly) are only allowed to look at other museums, there are many things that may be used here. Different changing exhibitions the one more suitable for the little ones than the other.

4.50 (67 reviews) (~6.75 km from centre)

Museumwinkel Albert Heijn

Archive

First Albert Heijn store, now a museum, with the original 1887 interior plus products for sale.

4.40 (1.2K reviews) (~4.63 km from centre)

Czaar Peterhuisje

Museum

Wooden house built in 1632 containing paintings & memorabilia of occasional guest Peter the Great.

4.40 (716 reviews) (~5.42 km from centre)

Pieter Vermeulen Museum

Museum

👍 A small sweet museum full with stuffed animals and skeletons. There are much for kids to learn and play little games. 2 hours is sufficient for entire place, it is small, but good.

4.40 (124 reviews) (~7.74 km from centre)

Museum Steam Pumping Station Halfweg

Technology museum

👍 A small but cozy museum where you spend about an hour to an hour and a half. The volunteers are friendly and helpful and can give a good explanation of how it works and what it takes to get the pumping station moving. There is also a drink with a cake and for a good price.

4.40 (63 reviews) (~8.32 km from centre)

Museum Kennemerland

Museum

👍👍 Super leuk museum: Museum Kennemerland heeft een super leuke archeologische collectie, een interessante collectie die inzage gaven over het leven in het gebied. Ook super lieve vrijwilligers

4.30 (98 reviews) (~7.78 km from centre)

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Top rated Museums in Zaanstad, Netherlands