Nxt Museum

Nxt Museum occupies a converted industrial hall in Amsterdam-Noord and shows large-scale new-media work: room-filling projections, responsive sound, light installations and pieces that react to where you stand. Exhibitions run for months at a time rather than rotating weekly, and each is built as a sequence of dark rooms you move through at your own speed.

It’s the most overtly sensory choice in this list — scale, sound and darkness do most of the work, and there’s very little reading involved. Late Friday and Saturday closing makes it a genuine evening option, which few museums here are. It’s a short ferry ride from behind Centraal Station. No smoking policy is published, so treat it as somewhere to go afterwards rather than during.