Museum Van Loon

The Van Loon Museum was the residence of the Van Loon family since 1884 and was completely restored as it was during the Golden Age. It opened to the public in 1973.

Visiting Museum Van Loon

The best way to explore this museum is to start on the bottom floor. One of the rooms features a video with interesting facts about the Van Loon family and their home. Another advantage is that the video is in English, so you won’t have any problem understanding it.

The video shows how some of the townhouse’s windows had curtains painted on them, so the servants couldn’t see through them, or how there are various secret passages connecting some of the houses so the family could move around without being seen.

Visitors can explore the house at their own leisure, roaming freely through most of the bedrooms, living spaces, kitchens, and gardens.

Our opinion

Even though Museum Van Loon is not found on our top attractions list, if you're in Amsterdam for over a weekend, it's worth discovering how a wealthy merchant family lived during the late nineteenth century.