H'ART Museum (formerly Hermitage Amsterdam): exhibitions, tickets and opening hours

The H'ART Museum, at Amstel 51, is the former Hermitage Amsterdam: it cut its ties with the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg in March 2022 and took its new name on 1 September 2023. With no permanent collection, it stages major temporary exhibitions developed with the Centre Pompidou, the British Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. From 3 October 2026 to 14 February 2027, the exhibition "Chez Matisse" brings together more than 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou. The museum is open every day from 10am to 5pm; an adult ticket costs €12.50 (€29.50 for the Matisse exhibition) and entry is free for under-18s. The museum occupies the Amstelhof, a home for elderly women built in 1681 on the banks of the Amstel, a short walk from the [Magere Brug](/fr/attractions/magere-brug) and the [Jewish Cultural Quarter](/fr/attractions/quartier-culturel-juif-amsterdam). The Amsterdam Museum, housed in one wing of the building since March 2022 while its Kalverstraat site is renovated, showed its last exhibition here until 30 November 2025; since 2026, the H'ART Museum has programmed exhibitions throughout the whole building.

Highlights

The Amstel façade

The classical façade of the Amstelhof, built in 1681 and opened in 1682, lines the river between the Nieuwe Herengracht and the Nieuwe Keizersgracht. A former Reformed diaconate home for elderly women, the building housed residents until 2007, before being converted into a museum and inaugurated on 20 June 2009.

"Chez Matisse" (3 October 2026 - 14 February 2027)

More than 80 works lent by the Centre Pompidou, including paintings, drawings and paper cut-outs by Matisse, presented around three themes: colour, the window and his dialogue with other artists, from Picasso and Bonnard to Le Corbusier, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. "La Blouse roumaine" (1940), which almost never leaves Paris, is the centrepiece.

"Het Land van Hagelslag" (until 8 November 2026)

"The Land of Chocolate Sprinkles" is the first exhibition at the museum by the Congolese collective CATPC, based in Lusanga: around thirty sculptures cast in cocoa, palm oil and sugar, embroideries and films on the colonial history of plantations. A large communal table at its centre hosts workshops and discussions.

The courtyard garden

After a short passage from the Amstel, you enter the large tree-lined inner courtyard, framed by the brick wings of the former care home. The museum's Grand Café looks out over this garden, one of the quietest in the city centre.

The Kerkzaal

The residents' former dining hall, where the Sunday church service was also held, keeps its 19th-century organ and windows over the Amstel and the courtyard. For a long time the longest hall in Amsterdam, it received Winston Churchill in 1946; today it is reserved for receptions and is not part of the visitor route.

Opening hours and prices

Open every day from 10am to 5pm (last entry 4:30pm); 12 noon to 5pm on 25 December and 1 January; closed on King's Day (27 April). Adult ticket €12.50; students and CJP or Uitpas holders €7.50; free for under-18s and with the Museumkaart or the I amsterdam City Card. "Chez Matisse" exhibition: adults €29.50; students, CJP and Uitpas €18.50; €7 surcharge with the Museumkaart or the I amsterdam City Card; free for under-18s.

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