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Canal houses on the Prinsengracht, where the Anne Frank House stands

No. 20 Top Landmarks & Attractions 2026

Anne Frank House

Amsterdam, Netherlands · City guide: Amsterdam

The canal house where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis and wrote her diary.

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Photo: Lệ Xuân, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Overview

The Anne Frank House is No. 20 in Tripadvisor's Travelers' Choice Best of the Best 2026 ranking of the top attractions in the world. From July 1942, Anne Frank, her family and four other Jewish people hid from the Nazi occupiers in the Secret Annex, rooms behind her father Otto Frank's business premises at Prinsengracht 263. They were discovered and arrested on 4 August 1944, and Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

Otto Frank, the only one of the eight to survive, published her diary in 1947. The museum opened in 1960. As he wished, the rooms of the annex have been left unfurnished, and a visit is quiet and deeply moving.

The entrance building of the Anne Frank House museum, Amsterdam
The entrance building of the Anne Frank House museum, Amsterdam. Photo: Ank Kumar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

Best time to visit

The museum is open every day except Yom Kippur. Tickets are released online in advance for timed slots and sell out quickly, so book as soon as your dates are fixed.

Highlights

  • 1

    The movable bookcase

    A hinged bookcase hid the entrance to the Secret Annex.

  • 2

    Anne's room

    The pictures of film stars and royalty she pasted on the wall are still there.

  • 3

    The diary

    Anne's original red-checked diary is on display.

  • 4

    The front house

    The warehouse and offices where the helpers worked, who brought food and news to the people in hiding.

Getting there

The museum is on the Prinsengracht canal, next to the Westerkerk. Trams 13 and 17 stop at Westermarkt, and Amsterdam Centraal station is about a 20-minute walk away. Trains from Schiphol Airport run frequently to Amsterdam Centraal.

Practical tips

Tickets
Tickets are sold only online through the official website, for a specific time slot. They are not sold at the door.
Time needed
About an hour.
Accessibility
The original house has very steep, narrow stairs, and the Secret Annex is not accessible to wheelchair users.
Currency
Euro (EUR). Cards, including contactless, are accepted almost everywhere.
Visa & entry
The Netherlands is in the Schengen Area. Many visitors, including citizens of the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period without a visa. The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES) now records non-EU travellers' entries and exits at the border, and the ETIAS travel authorisation is due to follow. Check the official EU site travel-europe.europa.eu and your own government's travel advice before you go.

Official information: Anne Frank House (official website). Check opening hours, prices and entry rules there before you go.

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