Albert Cuyp Markt

Iconic street market since 1905 with lots of stands selling clothing, local foods, flowers & more.

This wonderful outdoor market stretches for about half a mile down the Albert Cuypstraat. Stalls sell everything from veggies, cheese and fish to cosmetics, clothes and bedding. Some of the best deals in Amsterdam can be found here. It can get very crowded on certain days and times.

The whole area including the Ferdinand Bolstraat and Ceintuurbaan has many interesting shops with good deals on furniture, computers, bagels, haircuts, and lots more!

Open Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday.

Paradiso

This is one of the most popular venues in Amsterdam. A converted church now serves a more eclectic congregation of ravers, jazz freaks, rock fans, performance artists and more. The main hall has a great dance floor and balcony. Other halls in the basement and top floor host djs and jam sessions into the morning hours. A monthly membership fee is added to tickets, which are usually very reasonably priced.

Panama

Hip, trendy, the latest expensive place where you MUST be seen. Cafe-restaurant serves tasty tidbits, the dance studio is happening and the theatre-nightclub has a swanky champagne bar. Located out in the northeast part of Amsterdam facing Hei Ij and Ijhaven, near the cruise ship passenger terminal. Web site offers lots of flash and animation, as well as more info.

Pollinator Company

The Pollinator has moved again! (Grasweg 41D, 1031 HW Amsterdam, Netherlands) Now across the Ij from the old side of Amsterdam, see the map below for directions. Here is THE place that stocks gadgets to make your pot harvesting easier and more profitable. This is the place that makes and sells the famous Pollinator which separates tricomes from leaves and makes hashish!


Plus Mila is a real trip to meet! If she’s not around at the moment, one of her many kids will be glad to help you with anything.

Mila also sells the Ice-o-lator, a bag/screen system that uses ice water to separate those tricky tricomes, and ONLY the tricomes from grass. The resulting hash is the cleanest and purest around. If you come for a visit you can check out some amazing tools like “The Clipper,” which offers an easy way to manicure your harvest; the Pollinators that can process kilos of grass at a time; and lots more including a HUGE selection of grow books, and psychedelic cacti.

The large space is well stocked with everything from hash presses, to seed cleaner, hemp drinks and food, hemp snowboards, rare hallucinogens, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, smoking accessories, smart products and live plants.

Have a chat with Mila and you’ll come away far wiser and more knowledgeable about the delightful world of hemp.

Melkweg

Once a dairy, the Melkweg or Milky Way plays host to a wide range of entertainment from world famous musicians to the Cannabis Cup.

Inside are two dance halls, a bar, cafe, photo gallery and cinema.

The films offered are from around the world, in their original languages, often with Dutch subtitles. This is a great place to see cult classics or modern masterpieces.

A small monthly membership fee is added to ticket sales.

Beware: The air inside can get hot and full of smoke at times. If you’re sensitive, try finding a spot under the big ceiling vents for easier breathing.

Ticket office opens at 7:30pm
Lijnbaansgracht 234
Amsterdam
Phone: +31-(0)20-531-81-81

Houseboat Museum

Fine example of Dutch life aboard one of the unique houseboats lining Amsterdam’s canals. Go on board yourself to look around, and marvel at the comfy interiors made from the former cargo holds of these former commercial boats.

Located in the heart of Amsterdam, on the Prinsengracht opposite #296.

Open Wednesday through Sunday 11 to 5 in March through October. During the winter months from November to February open only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 5pm. Adult admission is 4.75 guilders.

Verzetsmuseum

The Dutch Resistance Museum (Verzetsmuseum)

The museum itself provides the best description:

“The exhibition tells a chronological story from approximately 1930 to 1950, in which information is offered in various ‘layers’. A visitor striding through the exhibition will get an overall picture of a rather indolent Dutch society in the thirties, experience the shock of the unexpected German invasion, then discover that both the oppression and resistance to it gradually intensify in the occupation years as the war progresses, finally to realize that experiences of this period are still playing a role in today’s society. A visitor looking a little more closely will be able to gather more detailed information, particularly from individual examples.”

Info:
Located near the Hortus and the Artis on the east side of Amsterdam. To get there take tram #9 or 14 to Plantage Middenlaan and walk two short blocks to the door.