This is a must! - This is another example of how perfectly many Dutch museums have been set up!!! Really great, cool audio tour, nice building and very informative. Highly recommended!

Definitely worth it! Great history of Amsterdam. - Wonderful history of Amsterdam - amazing how this city was built and remains standing. Great facility and value.

Very interesting - A great introducrtion to Amsterdam, maybe the best available. You get a short and very effecient presentation of the city and its soul. Engineering, architecture and regular life all gets its share. Some secrets and surprises as well. Very nice way to present everything.

Valuable and educational museum - What a very nice museum about the canals and houses in Amsterdam. Really fantastic and accessible done. Absolutely suitable for children. Don't look boring pictures but the exhibition is brought alive. I am so happy with my museum annual pass.

Surprisingly Stop in Amsterdam - I went here on a whim to get out of the rain and was so glad I did! The museum works via self guided audio tour, but you move along in a little group. I was really surprised how much canal and canal house history was packed in this museum. The exhibits were very engaging and keep me interested the whole time. It’s a little expensive for the length of time you’ll get there (I was in and out in less than an hour), but I think it’s worth doing if it’s included in your museum pass, you’re looking for a less crowded museum, or it’s your first time in Amsterdam.

Unique Museum - This is not a museum of artifacts. It is an explanation of the building of the city and canals. It was very interesting, more than spouse expected. A variety of mediums are used. The audio tour was very good. It was not crowded.

Very interesting - Nice little museum, very informative with friendly staff. It tells you everything about the ingenious way the canals and their houses were built. (Despite our anti immigration government, Amsterdam was built by immigrants!) Don’t go if your claustrophobic as you are guided through three darkened rooms with audio visual displays. I think the price point is too high for this museum, it's €16,50.

Look, this is fun - The museum annual pass will take you somewhere you would normally walk past. Super nice museum where it goes slightly different than usual. I won't give anything away, but just go and experience this sometime when you're in Amsterdam

Go to see the other Amsterdam highlights first, before taking time to go to here. this museum. this canal museum. - Explained as a Sound and Light show, but disappoints. Information should have been better presented. The animations are very old-style clips made by joining still photographs of small models. Surprising to still find this outdated technique in an audio-visual creativity and technology center like Amsterdam. What little information is presented is generally not reinforced or complemented by the primitive visuals. The canals as a subject is a very good story to tell, but this museum's low-quality visuals fall far short of what could normally be expected in Amsterdam. Especially considering the price of admission. A waste of time with no 'wow' effect.

Do not go. You will learn nothing about canals. Gives the word "museum" a bad name. - I don't know that I've ever learned less from a single museum. In fact, my intelligence may have dropped 10 points from visiting this museum. In fact, I probably learned more about canals at the cheese museum (which is just a store) than I did at this canal museum, wherein I learned nothing about canals. The staff takes your money, gives you an audio guide, and places you in a room with other guests. You aren't "allowed" to leave the room until the timer ends, and which point you are shuffled into the next room. This goes on for 4 rooms. In each room, there is a narrated presentation that more often celebrates Amsterdam as the greatest city in the world than provides any information about the why or how of the canals. Then, at the end, you are invited to go downstairs to see additional exhibits -- which for us, was inclusive of one art exhibit that proceeded to tell us .... what a tree was. No staff greets you as you leave, presumably because they are tired of people asking for their money back. Terrible. And, more expensive than the Rijksmuseum!