Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House is the canal house at Prinsengracht 263-267 in central Amsterdam where Anne Frank and seven other people hid from July 1942 until their arrest, and where she wrote the diary. The building had housed Otto Frank's business, and it was made of two parts: the main house at the front, where the firm carried on trading, and the annex behind it, on whose upper floors the eight people lived concealed. Daily 09:00–22:00. Exceptions: 1 January 12:00–22:00; 27 April 09:00–17:00; 4 May 09:00–17:00; 20 September 2026 09:00–17:00; 21–24 September 2026 closed; 7 November 2026 09:00–18:30; 25 December 09:00–17:00; 31 December 09:00–17:00.

The route runs through the working part of the front house and then through the hinged bookcase that Mr Voskuijl built to hide the annex door, which Anne described in her diary on 21 August 1942. The diary room holds the original red-checked diary Anne was given for her thirteenth birthday on 12 June 1942, together with the notebooks she continued in. The operator identifies 21 September 2026 as a Yom Kippur closure and 22–24 September 2026 as maintenance closures.

The museum says that on average a visit takes an hour, and that is the figure recorded on this page. Only the start of the visit is fixed: the ticket carries a time slot, and once inside a visitor may take as long as they want. Nothing pushes anyone through, and the museum publishes no closing-in warning or last-admission time on its ticket page, so the practical limit is the 22:00 closing rather than any stated maximum stay. Add time either side.

The museum opens daily from 09:00 to 22:00, which is a longer day than almost any other museum in Amsterdam keeps and is the single most useful thing to know when planning around it. There is no weekly closing day and no midday break. Daily 09:00–22:00. Exceptions: 1 January 12:00–22:00; 27 April 09:00–17:00; 4 May 09:00–17:00; 20 September 2026 09:00–17:00; 21–24 September 2026 closed; 7 November 2026 09:00–18:30; 25 December 09:00–17:00; 31 December 09:00–17:00. The historic front house and Annex are not accessible by wheelchair or other mobility aids.

A ticket is 16.50 euro for an adult, 7.00 euro for a visitor aged 10 to 17 and 1.00 euro for a child aged 0 to 9, each of those prices including a 1.00 euro booking fee. A European Youth Card pays 7.00 euro. They are non-transferable and valid only at the printed date and time. General adult admission is €16.50, including the €1.00 booking fee. Admission requires an online ticket for a specific time slot; tickets are not sold at the door. The historic front house and Annex are not accessible by wheelchair or other mobility aids.

The museum stands at Prinsengracht 263-267 but the visitor entrance is around the corner at Westermarkt 20, 1016 DK Amsterdam, beside the Westerkerk. No car is needed, and arriving by one is the harder option in a canal district with almost no street parking. The museum entrance is at Westermarkt 20; the historic building is at Prinsengracht 263–267. It is approximately a 20-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. From 15 February 2025 through February 2028, trams do not run to Westermarkt; arrive via Dam Square instead, followed by a 10-minute walk.

The stairs are the real obstacle and the museum documents them precisely: three steep staircases going up, three ordinary ones coming down, two small flights, and one high step. That step is the bookcase itself, 39 centimetres high and 41 wide, and it is the hardest movement of the visit. Two of the upward flights have a handrail on one side only. The historic front house and Annex are not accessible by wheelchair or other mobility aids. The historic route includes three steep upward staircases, three normal downward staircases, two small staircases and a 39 cm high step.

There is no photography inside the Anne Frank House at all. The museum forbids photographing and filming anywhere in the building, both to protect the original items and to keep visitors from disturbing one another, and it names smart glasses, camera glasses and AI glasses under the same rule. Plan the pictures for outside. The canal-side front catches the light earlier in the day and sits in its own shadow by late afternoon, when the tower makes the better subject. Fixed seating is available only at the beginning and end of the route; portable stools can be requested at the information desk.