Things To Do In Rotterdam

Things to do in Rotterdam

Start at the Markthal, a huge horseshoe of apartments arching over a food market, its ceiling covered in a giant mural of fruit and flowers. Across the road are the Cube Houses, tilted yellow cubes on poles, one of which is open to visitors.

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a mirrored bowl in the Museumpark, is the first publicly accessible art storage building in the world, with a rooftop garden. The Kunsthal, next door, has changing exhibitions.

Walk across the Erasmus Bridge, the white harp-shaped bridge over the Maas, to Kop van Zuid and the Hotel New York, the former headquarters of the Holland America Line. Fenix, the migration museum in an old warehouse nearby, tells the story of the millions who left for America from this quay.

Take a harbour boat tour to see the scale of the port, or go up the Euromast for the view.