Frank Ruwe

Every hipster in Amsterdam (& believe us there are many) has been to FOAM once or twice in their day. This cool, contemporary museum focuses on photography & photography alone. They’ve got an ever-changing roster of impressive exhibitions from photography icons, as well as a small space to highlight up & coming photographic talent. Once you’ve sauntered through the museum, grab a coffee from their café downstairs & hit the gift shop. You can never have too many coffee table books.

Eat, drink, shop. Name an activity, and you can probably do it at Droog. This unique concept space was dreamt up by the team behind the internationally renowned design label and houses a design & fashion shop, as well as an elegant cafe. The vibe is very A Clockwork Orange in the very best way.

You are guaranteed to feel hip when you cross the threshold at this trendy bar & restaurant in Amsterdam Noord. It is a great place to have a cosy, relaxed dinner with a large group of friends, thanks in no small part to the indoor skate park. Watch the skaters ollie & heel flip for hours while you sip an ice cold beer.

Though we’re certainly suckers for classic paintings by Old Masters like Vermeer and Paulus Potter, we can't deny the appeal of dynamic new media. When we want to be inspired, taken outside of ourselves and to another world, we head straight to the Nxt Museum. It has a wonderful programme of rotating exhibitions that focus on large-scale, multi-sensory works. Even if you’re more old school, we bet you’re going to love this.

Keith Haring is immortalised in Europe's biggest mural on a storage facility that used to belong to the Stedelijk Museum. Haring captures a man struggling with a monster-like creature in his classic style. It's a must-see if you are in the area!

Originally a travelling pop-up, this gallery shows pieces from global artists who may not have gotten the opportunity to exhibit their art otherwise. Their permanent location in Bos en Lommer now houses a collection of up-and-coming artists and has a bar where you can grab a drink after visiting the gallery.

Raymond Plat (you may remember him from 212), Niels Leijssenaar, Roderick Kunst and Willem Alberts have teamed up to create what will surely become an Amsterdam institution on par with Rijsel, De Kas or Buffet van Odette. The menu is a la carte – a bit of a rarity with the city’s best restaurants these days – and focusses on French-ish dishes with a meander into Mediterranean flavours every now and again.

From the outside, Nicholas Groente & Fruit seems like nothing more than a simple, albeit charming, neighbourhood grocer on a little street in Centrum. Head inside, through the shop and then outside once again, and you’ll realise it’s much, much more. Nicholas Groente & Fruit’s secret garden is home to works by some of the best street artists in the Netherlands. Grab your weekly groceries and see striking street art ‘in the wild’.