The Houseboat museum

If you want to find out, how life on a boat must be like, visit the houseboat museum, which is set up on a real houseboat.

On board you can see how this authentic barge was converted to a comfortable houseboat, provided with authentic skipper’s quarters with sleeping bunk, sizable livingroom, kitchen and bathroom. You shall be dumbfounded at the space and comfort on board.

The vessel on which the Houseboat museum is reconverted was built in 1914 and bore the name Hendrika Maria ever since. In those days the ship was propelled by sail.

The original vessel was engaged in transporting sand, gravel and coal until the ninteen-sixties. Thereafter the Hendrika Maria was converted into a houseboat in such a way as to maintain the historic outer appearance in being. The vessel has actually been lived in for about twenty years. Even though it is now no longer lived in, it seems though as if the residents just popped out to do the shopping. The houseboat museum is a living museum where one can poke about and sit where one wills.

Opening times

March – October: Tuesday through Sunday 11 am – 5 pm.
November – February: Friday-Saturday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm.
Easter Monday also opened.

Closed at Jan 1, April 30, Dec 25,26 and 31.
Also closed January 3 – January 28, 2005.

Visiting address

Houseboat Museum Amsterdam
Prinsengracht opposite no. 296
facing Elandsgracht (Johnny Jordaanplein).

Postal adress

Postbus 17291, 1001 JG Amsterdam
Telephone: +31 20-4270750
E-mail: info@houseboatmuseum.nl