Rembrandt House Museum

Rembrandt bought this house in the Jewish quarter in 1639, at the height of his success, and lived here for almost twenty years until he lost it to debt in 1658. The bankruptcy inventory, which listed every piece of furniture and every object, was used to furnish it as it was then.

You see the kitchen, the bedroom with its box bed, the cabinet of curiosities full of shells, weapons and Roman busts, and the large studio upstairs, where staff show how he prepared his paints. The museum also holds nearly all of his etchings.