ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo
Visit the oldest zoo in The Netherlands and the fifth oldest in the world in the center of Amsterdam.
Be amazed by the many species living side by side in the Forest House and Bird House. Scroll through the historic city park with its monuments, centuries-old trees and beds full of colorful and fragrant flowers. Watch giraffes, zebras and kudus intermingling on the Savannah.
Take a trip through space inside the Planetarium (admission included). Feel the fluttering of countless wings in the Butterfly Pavilion. Admire the botanical garden and take a restful break at one of our vegetarian restaurants.
ARTIS-Micropia
Enhance your visit by exploring ARTIS-Micropia, the worlds' first microbe museum, and discover an invisible world in de center of Amsterdam. Learn about microbes in your own body through the body scan, and come to understand more about these highly successful and important life forms.
You can't see them, but they're here. They are on you. In you. And you've got more than a hundred thousand billion of them, microbes. Learn about the microbes in your mouth and their exchange during kissing at the Kiss-O-Meter. Discover the invisible world of microbes in ARTIS-Micropia.
Every day the lab technicians talk about the most exceptional microbes and answer all of your questions at the lab talks.