How is this different from the museums listed under Places?

Places holds the museums as destinations: address, opening hours, what is there on an ordinary day. This page holds things that happen on a date — a family tour on Sunday morning, a half-term workshop, a science day. If you are planning a specific afternoon, start here; if you are asking "what could we do at some point", start with Places and work back.

Are museum workshops in English?

The larger museums, in Amsterdam especially, run a good deal of their family programme in English or bilingually, and smaller ones will often manage in English if you ask when booking. Hands-on workshops depend less on language than a guided tour does. Where an event is explicitly English-language, the listing says so; where it is silent, it is safest to assume Dutch and ask.

Do we need a separate ticket for the workshop?

Usually a workshop is either included with museum entry or costs a small amount on top, and places are limited enough that booking ahead matters — particularly in the school holidays, when a family workshop can fill within days of going on sale. Museumkaart normally covers the entry part but not the workshop fee. Each listing links to the museum’s own booking page for the current arrangement.

what’s on for kids

Museum & learning events for kids in the Netherlands

Dutch museums are unusually good at children, and most of them run a programme alongside the permanent collection: family tours, making workshops tied to an exhibition, science and discovery days, and the kind of hands-on session where an eight-year-old is handed something real to take apart. This page lists those dated events, in Amsterdam and wherever else they are on, rather than the museums themselves — for opening hours and ticket prices of a museum you can visit any day, Places is where those live. Ages vary widely here, so read the guidance before booking a workshop.

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