The best museums in Nijmegen in September 2025

These are the top 10 best museums in Nijmegen, 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. muZIEum1

    muZIEum

     Nijmegen
    What is it like to be blind or partially sighted? You can read about it or someone can tell you about it from their own experience, but during a visit to muZIEum (muSEEum) you will experience it yourself. Enter a world in which your other senses - hearing, smell, touch and taste - suddenly play a fa
  2. Valkhof Museum2

    Valkhof Museum

     Nijmegen
    What over the centuries has made us who we are? With a collection stretching back more than 14,000 years, we can provide part of an answer to that question, and when we do not know the answer, there are always still the interpretations that you can find in the earlier, modern and contemporary art fr
  3. Nationaal Fietsmuseum Velorama3

    Nationaal Fietsmuseum Velorama

     Nijmegen
    The National Bicycle Museum Velorama displays a collection of special bikes including original balance bikes (‘draisines’), high ‘bi’s’ and velocipedes. Among others, the museum owns the engagement tandem bicycle of Queen Juliana, the bike that Dutch cyclist Wim van Est was using while he fell in th
  4. Maelwael Van Lymborch House4

    Maelwael Van Lymborch House

     Nijmegen
    This little museum is dedicated to the famous Van Lymborch (Limbourg) Brothers and their uncle Johan Maelwael who used to have their studio here around the year 1400. The Van Lymborch Brothers were famous dutch medieval miniature painters. Johan Maelwael is the first Dutch painter we know by name an
  5. Museum De Bastei5

    Museum De Bastei

     Nijmegen
    Descend into the exciting underground past of Nijmegen. Wander through hidden corridors, staircases and vistas. Explore the old defence tower, the vaulted cannon corridor and the casemates. See, feel, and listen to the history of the oldest city in the Netherlands. At Museum De Bastei you will exper
  6. Valkhofbunker6

    Valkhofbunker

     Nijmegen
    The Valkhof bunker is the only machine gun bunker remaining of the three bunkers built by the Germans in the Valkhof in 1943. The bunkers had to defend the Waal Bridge and the surrounding area against the advance of the Allies during the war. Visitors can now read, hear and experience what Germans,
  7. Grootmoeders Keukenmuseum7

    Grootmoeders Keukenmuseum

     Nijmegen
    Grandmother's Kitchen Museum is a small museum in the Kruittoren at Kronenburg Park. It showcases a collection of old kitchen utensils and has a grocery store.
  8. Museum voor Anatomie en Pathologie8

    Museum voor Anatomie en Pathologie

     Nijmegen
    The Museum voor Anatomie en Pathologie is situated in the study centre of the Radboudumc. Both the Department of Anatomy and the department of Pathology are accessible to visitors. The collection of the museum includes embryos, fetuses and various parts of the human body (preparations).
  9. Museum Kinderdorp Neerbosch9

    Museum Kinderdorp Neerbosch

     Nijmegen
    'Museum Kinderdorp Neerbosch' brings to life the history of 20,000 children who have lived at the Neerbosch children's village over the past 150 years. From the mid-19th century, orphans from all over the Netherlands were cared for in the 'Orphanage Neerbosch', the largest private, self-sufficient c
  10. Huis van de Nijmeegse geschiedenis10

    Huis van de Nijmeegse geschiedenis

     Nijmegen
    The House of Nijmegen History is the starting point for everyone who wants to know more about the history of the oldest city in the Netherlands. Everyone is welcome in the House of Nijmegen History. We take you into the history of the city and region. In fact, the House organizes exhibitions, lectu

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