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Small-Group Walking Tour
This historical tour through the busy Jewish quarter and residential Plantage neighborhood offers a selection of stories from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Jewish and women’s history. It’s the perfect way to get an alternative view of Amsterdam.
Small-Group Walking Tour
This historical tour through the busy Jewish quarter and residential Plantage neighborhood offers a selection of stories from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Jewish and women’s history. It’s the perfect way to get an alternative view of Amsterdam.
Small-Group Walking Tour
The world’s first gay marriage was officiated by the Mayor of Amsterdam at its City Hall. But did you know that the city’s LGBTQ+ history stretches centuries? Meet historical Amsterdammers across the gender spectrum and sexual orientations.
Small-Group Walking Tour
The world’s first gay marriage was officiated by the Mayor of Amsterdam at its City Hall. But did you know that the city’s LGBTQ+ history stretches centuries? Meet historical Amsterdammers across the gender spectrum and sexual orientations.
Small-Group Walking Tour
In 1593, Jewish Amsterdammers began building a community in the relative safety of the city that transformed both the Netherlands and the world. Learn about these creative, compassionate, and challenging mavericks and their impact.
Small-Group Walking Tour
In 1593, Jewish Amsterdammers began building a community in the relative safety of the city that transformed both the Netherlands and the world. Learn about these creative, compassionate, and challenging mavericks and their impact.
Small-Group Walking Tour
The women who shaped Amsterdam are more complex than traditional tours would have you believe. Go to Amsterdam’s historic sites to hear stories of women who fought, wrote, calculated and led through the city’s chaotic and complicated past.
Small-Group Walking Tour
The women who shaped Amsterdam are more complex than traditional tours would have you believe. Go to Amsterdam’s historic sites to hear stories of women who fought, wrote, calculated and led through the city’s chaotic and complicated past.
Private Museum Tour
See the highlights and hidden icons of Amsterdam’s world-renowned Rijksmuseum in a private guided tour that explores who creates art and what stories it’s used to tell. And don’t worry about museum tickets. We’ve got you covered.
Private Museum Tour
See the highlights and hidden icons of Amsterdam’s world-renowned Rijksmuseum in a private guided tour that explores who creates art and what stories it’s used to tell. And don’t worry about museum tickets. We’ve got you covered.
Private Walking Tour
Get a personalized tour that covers the interests you’re curious about and the neighborhoods you want to see. Choose pick-up/drop-off locations, any combination of our hidden history topics, and themes such as artists, politicians, and rebels.
Private Walking Tour
Get a personalized tour that covers the interests you’re curious about and the neighborhoods you want to see. Choose pick-up/drop-off locations, any combination of our hidden history topics, and themes such as artists, politicians, and rebels.
Self-Guided Digital Tour
Use your phone to explore Amsterdam! This self-guided tour uses audio, images, maps, and text to introduce you to the women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Jewish people who made Amsterdam what it is.
Self-Guided Digital Tour
Use your phone to explore Amsterdam! This self-guided tour uses audio, images, maps, and text to introduce you to the women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Jewish people who made Amsterdam what it is.
Badass Tours uses storytelling to connect our guests with our unique city. We cover everything from medieval Dam Square to the 17th-century flourishing once called the Golden Age to the modern Red Light District. We go all over Amsterdam, from the city center to the Canal Belt to the flower market to the Van Gogh Museum, to reveal the many secrets that Amsterdam hides in plain sight.
Our guides aren’t just history buffs. They’re also performers and storytellers who know how to capture the imagination, making our tours fun as well as engaging. We tell stories about people because this is a great way to connect to history.
There are a lot of myths and urban legends about Amsterdam. Unfortunately, many tour operators repeat them as fact. Our tours were researched at archives and libraries around the country. You can find our sources here.
If you’re thinking about our themes, you may want to start with Hidden Gems. This tour covers Asian, Black, Jewish, LGBTQIA+, and women’s history. If you want to see Amsterdam’s medieval center, we suggest the Women’s History Tour. If you want to see the Canal Belt, we suggest the LGBTQ+ History Tour.
We work with Able Amsterdam to ensure all of our group tours are accessible. We’ve also tailored our private tours to deal with more specific concerns, such as taking a mixed blind and seeing group through the Rijksmuseum or condensing four centuries of Black history into 1.5km for a group with limited mobility. Amsterdam can be a challenging city to navigate with disabilities, and we’re grateful Able Amsterdam has helped us develop the tools to help all of our guests.
Neuroatypical guests say our DIY tour is a useful option. You still get a wide range of stories, but you can navigate at your own pace, without interaction and with breaks whenever you want. The login is good for two weeks, so guests can come back to it as their energy and attention allow.
We’re always developing new tours. Currently, these tours are available as private tours, but they will be released as public tours soon. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to schedule a private tour.
Public Group Walking Tour
The history of Amsterdam intertwines people from every continent. Even within the horrors of colonialism and slavery, however, there were people who created space for themselves and fought for their loved ones. Learn about these uplifting heroes and how they shaped Amsterdam.
DURATION: 2 hours
COST: 25 euros/person
Public Group Walking Tour
The diamond industry was so vibrant that Amsterdam was once known as The Diamond City. On this unique tour, learn how the industry’s pioneers shaped the country, then experience a historic diamond factory that’s still breaking new ground!
(Includes a 1-hour tour of the Gassan Diamonds factory and a diamond demo.)
DURATION: 2 hours
COST: 25 euros/person
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