Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
Discover an emotionally moving museum in the heart of Amsterdam
Anne Frank House is located in the heart of Amsterdam along the Prinsengracht Canal and close to the Westerkerk. It is one of the most popular and moving places you can visit whilst in Amsterdam. This is where the young Anne Frank wrote her diary whilst living with her family in hiding during the second world war.
The family lived in a hidden annexe behind a moveable bookcase for two years. Tragically they were betrayed and their hiding place was discovered by the Nazi’s and they were sent to separate concentration camps.
The Anne Frank House displays Anne’s original diary and other notebooks as well as photographs, film images, original objects and historical documents.
There is currently a mini-series on Disney+ called “A Small Light” which focusses on Miep Gies and her husband Jan, who risked everything to help hide Anne and her family. It is a fascinating insight into this time in Amsterdam and how life was for the Frank family, Miep and Jan and the wider population of Amsterdam. Definitely worth watching before or after your visit.
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Anne Frank House queues
Anne Frank House is a very popular museum often with very long queues. Even in winter, queues can snake round the corner and you can often find the queue before you find the house itself. Booking in advance is really essential, especially in the Spring/Summer months.
The queues are in part due to the size of the house and the limited numbers of people who can move around inside at any one time. Should Coronavirus ever raise its head again then social distancing rules would limit numbers further, so book in advance to avoid disappointment.
TICKETS FOR ANNE FRANK HOUSE
There are two types of tickets available at Anne Frank House. A basic entry ticket which gains you entrance to the museum and an entrance plus introductory programme ticket. The introductory programme ticket includes a 30-minute introduction to the history of Anne Frank given by one of the museums educators. This is an interactive and informative talk about the Second World War and the persecution of the Jews, relating it all to Anne Frank’s life. After the introduction you will feel much more informed about what you are seeing in the museum. This programme is not recommended for visitors under 10 years old, although this is at visitors discretion.
If you want to take the introductory programme you need to select that ticket type when booking online. In 2024 this ticket costs an additional €7 on the prices listed below.
Tickets now are released for sale every Tuesday at 10am (CEST) for a visit six weeks later, so you’ll need to make a note in your diary to book your ticket nearer your visit time.
TICKET PRICES FOR ANNE FRANK HOUSE 2024
Adults – €16.00*
Children 10-17 – €7.00*
Children 0-9 – €1.00*
* denotes a €1 online booking fee.
Anne Franks Museum Amsterdam opening times
- Daily 9am until 10pm
There are various exceptions to the opening hours, so make sure to check the date you want is available at the time you want, when booking online. Current exceptions below:
1 January – 12pm until 10pm
27 April – 9am until 5pm
4 May – 9am until 5pm
12 October – closed
25 & 31 December – 9am until 5pm
Where is Anne Frank House
Anne Frank House is located at Prisengracht 263-267. The museum entrance is around the corner at Westermarkt 20.
From Centraal Station you can reach the museum in 20-minutes by foot. You can also take a number 13 or 17 tram and get off at Westermarkt.
How long does it take to visit Anne Frank House
Visiting Anne Franks museum Amsterdam is not an all day or even a half-day experience. But if you ask anyone who has been, they will tell you that the memory of the experience is still with them now. In your short visit you will find yourself deeply moved in a way few museums can. On average visiting Anne Frank House takes around an hour. It will take around 90-minutes if you include the introductory programme.
Anne Frank Huis
When you visit Anne Frank House, you’ll find a large black building with lots of glass (see our first picture), this is actually to the side of the original house. This glass building is the entrance to the museum and house and where tickets are checked. The queues emanate from here and curl round the corner.
If you are walking along the Prinsengracht, you will see this building and could in theroy miss the actual original entrance to Anne Frank House. To be honest there are usually a bunch of tourists taking pictures of themselves in the doorway, which is a bit of a giveaway.
I recommend finding the original entrance though before or after your visit, just so you can see the house itself from outside and really get a feel for what you experienced inside. Seeing the outside and imagining everything that was going on in the surrounding area at the time, really brings its history to the forefront of the mind.
There is a small white sign reading “Anne Frank Huis” on the door to the building.
Does Anne Frank House have tours
There are no guided tours run in the museum.
There are free audio tours available to visitors which can be played in nine languages; Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Group visits are possible at Anne Frank Museum.
Can I take photographs in Anne Frank House
Unfortunately there is a no photography rule in place in the museum to protect the original artefacts.
Accessibility and facilities
The Anne Frank House is located in an Amsterdam canal house which has lots of steep steps, so accessibility is limited if you have mobility issues. There is only wheelchair access in the modern part of the museum which includes the temporary museum, the museum cafe and shop.
Anne Frank House Museum Shop
Visitors can purchase their own copy of Annes diary as well as dvd’s, museum catalogues, books and post cards.
The shop can only be accessed through the museum and keeps the same opening hours as the museum.
The Museum Cafe
The museum cafe is only accessed through the museum and serves both hot and cold drinks as well as snacks and lunch dishes. Payment can only be made by card.
Cloakroom Facilites
The museum has a cloakroom where you can store your buggy, coats and umbrellas. Large bags and suitcases cannot be stored and only small bags A4 size can be taken into the museum.
Tours that include Anne Frank House
You will find that Anne Frank House is on the itiniary of many walking tours and also combined tours. It makes a great part of a walking tour due to the fact that it can be visited in around an hour. Below you will find a few selected tours that include Anne Frank House.
Some tours do not include the ticket entry to Anne Frank House, so do check before booking if you need to purchase this separately or not.
Anne Frank Statue
Leaving the museum and heading towards Westerkerk you will find a small diminuitive Anne Frank Statue almost hidden away on the far side of the church.
It took us a little while to find it, but maybe that was the point. It is a lovely statue of Anne with the church as her backdrop. There is a plinth on the floor in memory.
