LEARNED SO MUCH! WORTH VISIT! GO EARLY !! WILL GET CROWDED!! - We purchased tickets days before for a set time. We had to wait in line with everyone else that walked up and wanted to purchase tickets. This was the only drawback I found about this place. Audio tour was great and informative about Rembrandts life and time that he spent and taught the craft to apprentices’. Very will done and exceptional live plate screening demonstration by craftsman. Great history lesson on Rembrandt understanding and motivations of this master.

Stand where Rembrandt stood - You come upon the ‘Rembrandt House' rather suddenly and the neon sign on the café next door stands out more obviously. However, once inside you step into the world of the famous painter. Thanks to his bankruptcy, an inventory exists of everything in the house at the time that he had to leave it. You see where he met clients, where he ate and slept and where he did his work. It’s the next best thing to having Rembrandt himself show you around. Try to make time for the printmaking demonstration if it is running, it’s very informative.

Wonderful insight to an old, typically Amsterdam house - Great for anyone interested in history and art. Full of information due to well prepared audio tours, fascinating and enchanting. Gorgeous interiors, lots of intriguing objects. The only downtime was a man in ticketoffice, obnoxious and full of wrong attitiude who didn't bother to explain nicely about tickets we pre-booked online but decided to be patronising instead. Not very proffesional.

Gem of a museum! - Using our iAmsterdam card for the Rembrandt Haus Museum where he lived & worked from 1639-1658 (opens at 10 AM). We were a little early so I had time to take photos of the black “dancing” lock keeper’s house built 1695 right by the canal locks which we had seen from our boat tour. We were first into Rembrandt’s house and it is a very well-laid out museum- even did well on the steep circular wooden stairs between floors! First was the kitchen where a box bed was located for the maid’s sleeping quarter. The water pump at the sink was for washing but not for drinking! Of course the lavatory was outside in the yard just off this room. Rembrandt’s first wife died from TB shortly after their son TItus was born and his wet-nurse had become Rembrandt’s mistress but when he refused to marry her after 6 years, she took him to court for breach of promise and he had to pay her 200 guilders alimony. A historic fight took place in this kitchen when she attacked him for taking up with the housemaid (his next paramour). His son Titus had a trust from his 1st wife’s family which would have been lost if Rembrandt remarried so these mistresses should have known the score! Next was the front entrance & office, a guest room & salon. He was an art dealer, artist, & teacher (earned 50 guilders from each student and had room for 4-5 students at a time). We saw his studio where he did his etchings and at 10:30 a docent gave us a fascinating demonstration of how they were done - 3 different methods with 2 different tools and acid etching. Could do 200 prints from the acid etched ones, 100 from one of the tools and only 40 prints from the other tool. Sometimes he combined the methods. We saw examples of these different types including his only still life - it is of a shell. Plaster busts and many collectibles were all used in teaching his students. He had early success at the age of 30 and owned Titian and Michelangelo works. But he liked to speculate and overspend so he ended up bankrupt (the inventory list of his home’s contents came from this). The artist guild banned him due to his bankruptcy so his son and last mistress (the maid) had to be the owners of the business with Rembrandt as an employee! Both his son and mistress died before him and Rembrandt died penniless. His pauper’s grave would have disposed of his body after 2 years (high turnover for pauper’s graves). Yet now he is the most celebrated artist of Amsterdam with his statue in a square named after him! All the beds throughout the house were these short box beds since people slept sitting up so they wouldn’t be mistaken for dead and to keep blood from flowing too much to their heads. In the upper floors were his huge studio for painting where a docent showed how he would have mixed his pigments/colors for his paintings. The top floor in the eaves was for his students with cubicle type dividers between their spots. Then we moved into some interactive displays where we could see how he had changed/altered certain etchings over time - some etchings had 8 different versions! Also how some had been drastically done over (like painting over another painting). This was a real gem of a museum! We finished about 11:15 and in their gift shop was a neat necklace - his 112 drawings of dogs had been collated into a tiny folio that hung off the necklace. You could actually see these postage stamp size series in the open book. What a creative, inventive idea! But I didn’t want to spend €400 for a necklace I would never wear & would have to use glasses to see the dogs.

Wonderful! An opportunity to learn abou the life and the Rembrandt’ s production process - Very interesting! Wonderful to know how Rembrandt lived, produced and to know how scientists are analyzing Rembrandt’s masterpieces.

Great experience! - The house was full of history and paintings of contemporaries o the time. So much information! And beautifully restored. Gave you a good idea of what it was like to live there. I also appreciated the restoration museum next door and the demonstration of paint making. Such a laborious process!

A MUST - In Amsterdam for the fabulous big name art museums? Add this to your must see list because being here will give you a window into how this famous artist lived at a time he was successful. On the top floor is a lecturer giving very informative talks. An elevator was most helpful. Be sure to ask for the free audio guides.

Wonderfully educational - If you are a fan of art, history or culture, visit this historic house. It is very nicely preserved with period items and the demonstrations of Rembrandt’s printing technique and oil paint creations are highly interesting. So good that the property has been saved - this was one of our favorite attractions in Amsterdam!

Really nice Rembrandt house tour - A nice museum in the city centre, ideal for couples or families with kids. Really interesting information on Rembrandt's life, small details that big museums and galleries cannot offer. Used the City card so entrance was free. One hour is recommended for the tour in the museum.

Great at Showing Daily Life During the Period - The museum takes around 45 mins to go around with the audio guide included in the entrance price. The audio guide was informative and helpful when working out the route around the museum. I would have appreciated some more information and interpretation panels to read as you went around to compliment the audio guide and suit different learning styles. I'd definitely recommend a visit as it house really gets across the history of what daily life was like during this period in Amsterdam.