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Runstraat 1, 1016 GJ Amsterdam
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The Anne Frank House, a historic museum in Amsterdam, preserves the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid during WWII, featuring original artifacts, diary excerpts, and educational exhibits on antisemitism and the Holocaust.
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Westermarkt 20, 1016 GV Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Runstraat 1, 1016 GJ Amsterdam
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The Anne Frank House is the historic canal house where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary while in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Today it operates as a museum and memorial, offering visitors a deeply moving look into the lives of those who hid here between 1942 and 1944.
The Anne Frank House is a biographical museum at Westermarkt 20, 1016 GV Amsterdam, built around the Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 where Anne Frank, her family, and four others hid from the Nazis for just over two years during World War II.
It is open daily, but here is the part most guides bury: you can only get in with a timed ticket bought online in advance, tickets are released every Tuesday at 10:00 AM Amsterdam time for dates six weeks out, and they sell out within minutes. This local’s guide covers exactly how to get in, when to go, how to reach it (the Westermarkt tram stop is currently closed), and what the visit is actually like.

Anne Frank House tickets cost €16.50 for adults and are sold only through the official website, annefrank.org. New tickets are released every Tuesday at 10:00 AM CET/CEST (Amsterdam time) for a visit roughly six weeks later. There are no walk-up tickets, no tickets at the door, and no exceptions — if you don’t book online, you don’t get in.
Here’s the insider move: set a reminder for 9:55 AM Amsterdam time on a Tuesday, have your dates ready, and be logged in and refreshing when the clock hits 10:00. In summer (June–August), the morning slots can vanish in two to three minutes. Treat it like buying concert tickets, not like a museum.
If your dates are sold out, your best backup is the same-day release: roughly 20% of each day’s tickets drop at 9:00 AM Amsterdam time on the day of the visit itself. It’s competitive, but people land them. A few rules to keep you safe and sane:
The Anne Frank House is at Westermarkt 20, 1016 GV Amsterdam, and is currently open every day from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with last entry at 9:00 PM. The museum opens 365 days a year, including holidays. Hours do shift seasonally and on a handful of dates, so always confirm your exact slot on the official site when you book.
The best time to visit is the last evening slots — after about 7:30 PM the crowds thin, the light over the canals is beautiful, and the experience feels far more personal than a packed midday visit.
The simplest way to reach the Anne Frank House is to walk — it’s a flat, well-signed 15–20 minute stroll from Amsterdam Centraal straight through the canal belt. Here’s the local correction most older guides get wrong: the Westermarkt tram stop is closed for canal-bridge construction and is not expected to reopen until 2028. Trams 13 and 17 no longer stop at Westermarkt.
Inside, you move from Otto Frank’s original business premises into the Secret Annex itself — the hidden rooms behind the famous swinging bookcase where eight people lived from 1942 onward. Anne hid here with her parents Otto and Edith, her older sister Margot, and the van Pels family, supported by helpers like Miep Gies who risked their lives to bring food and news. At Otto Frank’s request after the war, the annex rooms remain empty, with no furniture. That emptiness is the point; it hits harder than any reconstruction could.
Along the way you’ll see Anne’s original diary, photographs, and personal belongings, the pencil marks tracking the children’s heights, the magazine cuttings Anne pasted on her bedroom wall, and the window with a glimpse of the Westerkerk tower — the one piece of the outside world the families could still see.
After the group was betrayed and deported in August 1944, only Otto survived; Anne and Margot died at Bergen-Belsen. The final exhibition connects their story to antisemitism and discrimination today. Most visitors move through quietly; photography is not allowed inside.

Plan on about 1 to 1.5 hours. That’s enough to walk the full route through the annex and the exhibition at the slow, unhurried pace the place deserves — you set your own speed once inside, there’s no guided shuffle. Reading Anne’s diary excerpts and sitting with the quiet is where the time goes, so don’t rush it.
Visiting the Anne Frank House is an emotional experience — build in time to sit with it before rushing to your next stop. You’re standing in the Jordaan, the city’s coziest neighborhood, so do what locals do and find a brown café by the canal:
Order a coffee or a Dutch jenever, watch the boats go by, and let the visit settle. If you’re pacing a bigger day, our guide to visiting Amsterdam on a budget has more local picks nearby, and seeing the Prinsengracht and the surrounding canals from the water is a fitting, low-key way to end the day.
New tickets are released every Tuesday at 10:00 AM Amsterdam time (CET/CEST) for visits about six weeks later. They are sold only on the official website, annefrank.org, and the most popular slots can sell out within a few minutes, so log in and be ready to book the moment they release.
Roughly 20% of each day’s tickets are released at 9:00 AM Amsterdam time on the day of the visit itself, which is the best backup if your dates are gone. Check the official site repeatedly that morning. Never buy from resellers — resale is not allowed, tickets are often fake, and people are turned away at the door with fraudulent tickets every day.
Adult tickets (18+) are €16.50, young visitors aged 10–17 pay €7, and children aged 0–9 pay €1, plus a small online booking fee. Tickets are sold only through annefrank.org and are non-refundable and non-transferable.
The museum is currently open every day from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with last entry at 9:00 PM, including holidays. Hours can change seasonally, so confirm your exact time slot on the official website when booking.
Plan for about an hour to an hour and a half. That gives you time to walk through the Secret Annex and the exhibition at an unhurried pace and to read Anne’s diary excerpts along the way. You set your own speed once inside.
No, photography is not allowed inside the Anne Frank House. The rule protects the integrity of the space and keeps the experience meaningful for everyone. Enjoy the moment and take the history in rather than photographing it.
It is a flat 15–20 minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal through the canal belt. Note that the Westermarkt tram stop is closed for construction until around 2028, so trams 13 and 17 no longer stop there — instead ride to Dam Square and walk the final 10 minutes, or simply walk the whole way.

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