The best museums in Haarlem in September 2025

These are the top 10 best museums in Haarlem, the Netherlands, ranked by their rating and popularity in 2025. Click a museum for more information about the museum, including visitor information, exhibitions and reviews.

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  1. Corrie ten Boom House - The Hiding Place1

    Corrie ten Boom House - The Hiding Place

     Haarlem
    Corrie ten Boom House - The Hiding Place is a museum dedicated to the resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom. The museum is housed in her former home. Part of the house is decorated as it was decorated in the past. Among other things, visitors can see the shelter, a small space behind a false wall in th
  2. Frans Hals Museum (Groot Heiligland 62)2

    Frans Hals Museum (Groot Heiligland 62)

     Haarlem
    The Frans Hals Museum is Haarlem’s museum of fine art. Home to the world’s biggest collection of Frans Hals's paintings, alongside works by famous Haarlem artists such as Judith Leyster, Cornelis van Haarlem and Jacob van Ruisdael. And discover also the museum’s rich collection of art from the 1880s
  3. Teylers Museum3

    Teylers Museum

     Haarlem
    Teylers Museum has an important collection of drawings by Italian and Dutch masters, including famous prints and drawings by Rembrandt and Michelangelo. It also has a collection of paintings with works from the Romantic and Hague School. In the monumental Oval Room, various instruments are exhibited
  4. Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys4

    Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys

     Haarlem
    Museum of the Mind has two locations; one in Haarlem and one in Amsterdam. In the museum in Haarlem you can discover more about your own mind and those of others in an interactive way. In Amsterdam you can see exhibitions with outsider art, in which artists show their imaginative inner world. In th
  5. Museum Haarlem5

    Museum Haarlem

     Haarlem
    Museum Haarlem illustrates the history of Haarlem and surroundings. It is a city that is often praised for its beauty and has inspired many painters. Dutch painters such as Frans Hals and Jan van Scorel painted the city. The collection consists of objects of historical value from the South ‘Kennemer
  6. KathedraalMuseum6

    KathedraalMuseum

     Haarlem
    The Cathedral Museum is the continuation of the Treasury of the New Bavo. For now, this new museum space includes a large, attractively furnished exhibition hall, right under the high choir and accessible through the cathedral. In time, expansion will follow in the spaces under the ambulatory and be
  7. Archeologisch Museum Haarlem7

    Archeologisch Museum Haarlem

     Haarlem
    The Archeologisch Museum Haarlem is located in the basement of the Vleeshal. The museum is dedicated to the cultural heritage of Kennermerland. It illustrates how in four thousand years Haarlem has become what it is today. In showcases archaeological finds are displayed, including earthenware pots,
  8. ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem8

    ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem

     Haarlem
  9. Pieter Teylers Huis9

    Pieter Teylers Huis

     Haarlem
  10. Barnaart House10

    Barnaart House

     Haarlem
    Enter House Barnaart, rightfully a city palace with imperial allure. Furnished in Empire style, according to the latest French fashion of the early 19th century. With the still original furniture of entirely gilded woodwork, and dazzling gold and purple decorations. Philip Barnaart received disti

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