The Oosterdok & Oost-Indisch Huis Walk

The stops

1. 01
   De hongerwinter

   A memorial-themed stop that adds a human and wartime layer to the waterfront district, reminding visitors that Amsterdam’s urban landscape also carries memory, loss, and survival.

2. 02
   Monument Vereeniging van Oud-Kweekelingen

   A commemorative monument that adds historical depth to the route and helps diversify the tour beyond docks and modern architecture.

3. 03
   Het Scheepvaartmuseum

   The Dutch National Maritime Museum anchors the city’s seaborne memory, including the commerce, ships, and colonial routes that linked Amsterdam to Java and the wider East Indies.

4. 04
   Amsterdam Centre for Architecture

   Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (Arcam) is an organisation that was founded in 1986 that "concentrates its activities in Amsterdam and the surrounding area." Arcam focuses on architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture.

5. 05
   Oosterdok

   A crucial reclaimed dock basin that tells the story of Amsterdam’s port restructuring. The area’s transformation from harbour water to civic and cultural district is central to the theme of artificial land and shoreline reinvention.

6. 06
   NEMO (museum)

   NEMO Science Museum is a science centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located in the Oosterdokseiland neighbourhood in the Amsterdam-Centrum borough, situated between the Oosterdokseiland and the Kattenburg.

7. 07
   Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam

   A major piece of contemporary Dutch civic architecture on the eastern docklands, showing how reclaimed harbour land became a new public urban center.

8. 08
   Oosterdokseiland

   A textbook reclaimed-island district: once water and working harbour, now a dense urban extension shaped by land creation, infrastructure, and contemporary Dutch design.

9. 09
   Oudezijds Kolk

   A waterside pocket of the old harbour where canals, ship traffic, and urban settlement overlapped, showing how Amsterdam’s historic waterfront operated before modern reclamation.

10. 10
    Oost-Indisch Huis

    Headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam, a crucial institution in the city’s Java trade legacy and the wider history of maritime capitalism.

The narration at every stop is in the app — this is the map of where it takes you, with a line on each stop.