The best museums in Rotterdam in September 2025

These are the top 20 best museums in Rotterdam, 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. Diergaarde Blijdorp1

    Diergaarde Blijdorp

     Rotterdam
    Diergaarde Blijdorp is one of the largest and oldest zoos in the Netherlands. It consists of several parts. The Oceanium is situated at the main entrance and contains many different fish. In addition, Diergaarde Blijdorp is divided into continents. It features the Arctic area, the North America area
  2. ss Rotterdam2

    ss Rotterdam

     Rotterdam
  3. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen3

    Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

     Rotterdam
    A visit to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is a journey through the history of art. Dutch and European masterpieces provide a comprehensive survey of art from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century, from Bosch, Rembrandt and Van Gogh to Dalí and Dutch Design.
  4. Kijk-kubus4

    Kijk-kubus

     Rotterdam
    The Kijk-kubus is the fully decorated museum house of the ‘Blaakse Bos’. The Kijk-Kubus is part of the cube houses that were built and designed by architect Piet Blom in the period 1982 – 1984. The interior illustrates how people live in these cube houses. Exhibition of models, photographs and multi
  5. Online discount!Wereldmuseum Rotterdam5

    Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

     Rotterdam
    As a major port city, Rotterdam played an important role in the infrastructure of imperial and global movements of people, objects, and ideas. This identity is reflected at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam through exhibitions and programming about the many people, histories, and cultures that shape and cr
  6. Maritime Museum Rotterdam6

    Maritime Museum Rotterdam

     Rotterdam
    In the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, you can discover the enormous effect that the maritime world has on our daily lives. Travel through the maritime past and present in modern exhibitions for adventurers large and small. Listen to stories and admire prize exhibits from our leading collection. The muse
  7. Trompenburg Tuinen & Arboretum7

    Trompenburg Tuinen & Arboretum

     Rotterdam
    Trompenburg Tuinen & Arboretum used to be one of the ‘buitenplaatsen’ in Cralingen. Now there are gardens with fountains, herbaceous borders, a desert greenhouse and an aviary. There are thousands of perennials and bulbs, and hundreds of trees and shrubs. The old part of the garden has an English la
  8. Kunsthal Rotterdam8

    Kunsthal Rotterdam

     Rotterdam
    Kunsthal Rotterdam is housed in a modern building designed by Rem Koolhaas. It is an exhibition site of 3300 square metres. Kunstal Rotterdam does not have its own collection. For this reason, it organizes various exhibitions on art and culture. There are often several exhibitions simultaneously, al
  9. Futureland9

    Futureland

     Rotterdam
    Futureland is located on the seawall of the Maasvlakte, overlooking the newly developed land. It is the information centre of the Second Maasvlakte where visitors get to know everything about the construction of a new port on an area of 1800 square metres, where waves, sand and wind play a major rol
  10. Nederlands Fotomuseum10

    Nederlands Fotomuseum

     Rotterdam
    We safeguard the Netherlands’ current and future photographic heritage and make it relevant to today’s international context. In doing so, we exhibit photography that reflects the world we live in and share it with society in order to enrich people’s lives with visual stories that matter. We also br
  11. St. Lawrence Church11

    St. Lawrence Church

     Rotterdam
    The St. Lawrence Church is the only remaining monument in Rotterdam from the Middle Ages. Concerts, festivals, fairs and exhibitions are organized in this late-Gothic church. In addition, church services can also still take place. Each year a new, varied program is created. The permanent exhibition
  12. Nieuwe Instituut12

    Nieuwe Instituut

     Rotterdam
    Nieuwe Instituut is the Netherlands’ national museum for architecture, design and digital culture. Located in the city of architecture, Rotterdam, in the Museum Park with Kunsthal Rotterdam and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen as neighbours, the Nieuwe Instituut has various exhibition spaces, a museum s
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    Remastered

     Rotterdam
  14. Sonneveld House14

    Sonneveld House

     Rotterdam
    Sonneveld House Museum, situated on the edge of Museumpark in Rotterdam, is one of the best-preserved homes built in the Dutch Functionalist style. It was designed in the 1930s by architecture office Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, renowned for the Van Nelle Factory and Feyenoord Stadium. They also work
  15. Natural History Museum Rotterdam15

    Natural History Museum Rotterdam

     Rotterdam
    The Natural History Museum Rotterdam is housed in Villa Dijkzigt, a monumental building from 1852. The museum organizes exhibitions on (urban) nature and natural history. The permanent collection includes mammals, birds, insects, plants and shells mainly from the region, but also partly from differe
  16. Chabot Museum16

    Chabot Museum

     Rotterdam
    The Chabot Museum is housed in a monumental white villa from 1938. The museum is dedicated to the Dutch expressionist painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot (1894-1949). The collection consists of paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints. Stylistically, his work compares to work of Dutch expressionis
  17. Villa Zebra17

    Villa Zebra

     Rotterdam
    Villa Zebra focuses on children of three to twelve years old. With interactive exhibitions and workshops with visual arts, the museum seeks to teach children about the artworks and the topic of the exhibition. Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and in some holidays, the museum organizes workshops, where
  18. FENIX18

    FENIX

     Rotterdam
    FENIX is located in a historic warehouse, right on the river Maas, on Katendrecht. It is a cultural place in Rotterdam. The place of departure and arrival. Where millions of Europeans left and just as many people arrived from all over the world. Fleeing or chasing love. In search of happiness or bet
  19. Rotterdams Radio Museum19

    Rotterdams Radio Museum

     Rotterdam
    Rotterdams Radio Museum exhibits a collection of radios that cover a period of a hundred years. The collection includes the Nonera radio with ‘hoornluidspreker’, the first Corver crystal receiver and various gadgets. In addition to radios, the museum also covers television, hifi, computers and marin
  20. Museum Stoomdepot20

    Museum Stoomdepot

     Rotterdam
    The Museum Stoomdepot is located in a classic locomotive shed in Rotterdam. Inside the shed are five tracks with steam locomotives. The second floor provides space for exhibitions. It is also possible to take a ride in one of the steam trains.

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