Visit ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo, located 10 minutes from city center, directly on one of the canals. Visit the newborn elephant calves playing outside, historic monuments, and beautiful flower gardens.

Explore ARTIS Zoo, where something special happened this winter: two elephant calves were born. Take part in the Elephant Expedition, follow the foot trails, learn fascinating facts about elephants, and crack the elephant code. During the spring holiday, children can even craft their own elephant enclosure. Join an after-hour walk through the park and experience the remarkable calm that settles over the zoo while discovering which animals become active at night.

Travel to Madagascar at the renewed Kerbertterras (formerly the lion’s enclosure) and admire how ring-tailed lemurs, red ruffed lemurs, and turtles live together here. Then continue to the new enclosure of the Asian small-clawed otters, located next to the red panda habitat.

Visit the Planetarium for a journey through space (included with admission). Discover stars, planets, and marvel at our place in the universe.

ARTIS-Groote Museum is Amsterdam’s interactive museum of nature where you explore your connection with the natural world. Visit the new exhibition Tanja: Up Close, about Amsterdam’s most famous hippopotamus. Become one with everything around you.

In this interactive museum of nature in Amsterdam, you’ll discover how humans, animals, plants, and microbes together form one ecosystem. By touching, smelling, listening, and observing, you’ll experience that we, as humans, are also part of nature.
Through 1,000 large and small examples, you’ll explore the similarities between yourself and other animals and plants. Did you know that trees communicate with each other, just like neighbors? Or that babies move in ways similar to crocodiles?

Set off on a journey of discovery through many interactive machines and be moved by art, sounds, and scents. In this way, you’ll gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of your connection with nature. There are also various activities, and lectures to attend in the museum, including during the spring holiday.