Amsterdam Maritime History Tour with Tastings and Museum Entry

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| Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Free Cancellation

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Duration

3 hours

Wheelchair accessible

Audio guide

Live guide

Professional English-speaking guide
Welcome drink and snack at Schreierstoren (start of tour)
National Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum)
Ask your guide anything! He is happy to give you tips what to do in town.

Additional food and drinks beyond the welcome snack

Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Walk Amsterdam's seafaring past with an expert guide in a small private group. From the Tower of Tears where Henry Hudson set sail, through the VOC warehouses and past admirals' houses, to a private guided visit inside the National Maritime Museum — museum admission included. Starts with a welcome drink...

Duration 3 Hours
Private Tour

1
Weeping Tower
Your guide meets you at the Tower of Tears, a 15th-century watchtower on Prins Hendrikkade where Henry Hudson set sail for America in 1609. The VOC story starts here over a welcome drink and snack included in the tour price.
- Duration 20 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
2
Zeedijk
A walk along Amsterdam's old sailor strip past Café het Aapje, one of the city's oldest bars. Sailors returning from the tropics paid their tabs with exotic animals. Your guide explains the VOC crew culture and where the Dutch expression 'broodje aap' comes from.
- No Admission Ticket Required•
- Drive-By Only

Nieuwmarkt

The square is dominated by De Waag, Amsterdam's oldest surviving castle gateway turned weighing house, dating to 1488. Your guide brings the spice trade alive here — the VOC used the Waag to weigh exotic goods from the East Indies, and the square once buzzed with merchants and sailors from...

Duration 15 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Montelbaanstoren

A 16th-century watchtower on the Oudeschans canal, the Montelbaanstoren was used by the VOC to muster sailors before departure. Rembrandt sketched it many times from the opposite bank. Your guide shares stories of the sailors who assembled here for voyages that could last three years.

Duration 15 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Scheepvaarthuis

Amsterdam's most beautiful Art Nouveau building, completed in 1916 as the headquarters for six major shipping companies. The ornate facade is packed with maritime motifs — anchors, sea creatures and compasses — celebrating Dutch dominance of world trade. Your guide decodes the symbolism and explains how the building marked the...

Duration 15 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Prins Hendrik Bust

Along this grand waterfront boulevard your guide points out the house where Admiral Michiel de Ruyter lived — the man who twice defeated the English and French fleets and is buried in the Nieuwe Kerk. De Ruyter rose from rope-maker's son to commander of the Dutch navy, an extraordinary story...

Duration 10 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Amsterdam-Centrum

Europe's largest 19th-century warehouse complex, built to store colonial goods from the VOC trading routes. The 84 warehouses each carry the name of a Dutch colony or trading post — from Batavia to Ceylon. Today it's a charming residential canal, and your guide explains how the spice trade that once...

Duration 15 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Het Scheepvaartmuseum| The National Maritime Museum

Your tour concludes with a guided visit inside the National Maritime Museum, one of the world's finest collections of seafaring history. Housed in a stunning 17th-century naval storehouse, highlights include the full-scale replica VOC ship Amsterdam, historic sea charts, and the globe collection that once guided Dutch navigators to the...