Sights

Museumpark 18-20

}044 194 00; www.boijmans.nl

Absolutely one of the foremost art museums in the Netherlands, Boijmans van Beuningen boasts a collection that spans hun…

Museumpark 25

}044 013 58; en.nai.nl

It’s appropriate that a city with architecture as interesting as Rotterdam’s would be home to one of the best institutes…

Kubuswonig (Cube Houses)

Overblaak 70

}041 422 85; www.kubuswonig.nl

These exceptionally weird additions to Rotterdam’s architecture were designed by Piet Blom in 1982 as a new sort of hous…

Kunsthal

Westzeedijk 341

}044 003 01; www.kunsthal.nl

Rem Koolhaas, a super famous Dutch architect and contender to design the NAI, was the brain behind this striking buildin…

St. Laurenskerk

Grote Kerkplein 15

}041 314 94.; www.laurenskerkrotterdam.nl

This magnificent 17th-century building seems out of place in modern Rotterdam. It was virtually destroyed in the 1940 bo…

Korte Hoogstraat 31

}021 767 67; www.hmr.rotterdam.nl

This excellent museum on the history of Rotterdam lies in one of the few buildings of the city center that survived the …

Het Park

Yes, Rotterdam is famous for its hyper-urban glass and steel architecture, but this 19th-century park (simply called“The…

Reefer

Oppert 1

}041 226 13

This is one of the only coffeeshops in Rotterdam where people—virtually all locals—actually stick around after buying th…

Pluto

Nieuwe Binnenweg 181

}043 667 68

The large window display of hookahs and bongs makes this place seem a lot larger than it really is. In fact, it’s pretty…

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