Enter your visit date and see exactly when Anne Frank House tickets go on sale for that day, converted to your own timezone. We check annefrank.org live, so you also see whether anything is available right now.
Anne Frank House tickets go on sale one week at a time, always on the Tuesday about six weeks before the visit week, and most time slots sell out within minutes. Enter your date below and Bespoke Amsterdam Experiences checks annefrank.org live: you get the exact release moment converted to your own timezone, and whether anything is on sale for that week right now. It covers 2026 and 2027, including the second, last minute Tuesday release.
This check is free. No signup, no email address and no charge, unlike the paid alert services. We are not the museum and we do not sell tickets: Anne Frank House tickets are only ever sold on the official site, annefrank.org.
Checked 7 September 2026 by Bespoke Amsterdam Experiences. Release dates are calculated from the museum schedule rather than copied from a list, so they stay correct for any date you enter, and availability is checked against annefrank.org the moment you ask.
The Anne Frank House sells tickets exclusively through its official website, annefrank.org. There are no legitimate third-party resellers, you can’t buy tickets from the museum on the day, and the I Amsterdam City Card is not valid. There are no waiting lists, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
2026 ticket price: €16.50 for adults, €7 for ages 10 to 17, and €1 for children under 10.
The Tuesday Rule is the only way to get the tickets you require:
So on Tuesday 7th July, tickets go on sale for the week Monday 17th August to Sunday 23rd August.
The Anne Frank House is a tiny 17th-century canal house with a narrow staircase to the Secret Annex. The museum hosts around 1.2 million visitors a year, but demand from every continent is much higher.
In spring and summer (April to September) and on weekends, popular slots (around late morning and early afternoon) can be sold out in two to three minutes after release. Off-season and evening slots stay available for longer, although they also sell out after a few days.
For the full walkthrough, including what the tickets cost, the exact release schedule and every option if your date is already sold out, read our guide on prices, cards, the stairs and your sold-out options.
No, and it is worth understanding why before you spend money on one.
Every ticket to the Anne Frank House is a timed-entry ticket. You book a specific 15 minute arrival window, you turn up in that window, and you go in. There is no faster queue to buy your way into, because there is no slow queue to skip. The only line is the short one of people holding the same entry time as you.
So when a reseller advertises a skip-the-line Anne Frank House ticket, one of two things is true. Either they are selling you an ordinary timed ticket at a markup, or they are selling you something the museum will not accept at the door. The museum states plainly that tickets are sold on annefrank.org and nowhere else, and it warns visitors about sites with similar looking addresses.
A guided tour is a different matter, and an honest one. It does not skip a queue, it adds a guide and the story of the neighbourhood. What it cannot do is create a museum ticket that does not exist.
If you hold a Museumkaart, an ICOM card, a Stadspas or a VriendenLoterij VIP-kaart, entry to the Anne Frank House costs €1. That is the online booking fee, not an admission price. A European Youth Card brings it down to €7.
Here is the part people get wrong. None of these cards lets you walk in, and none of them gets you a slot outside the normal release. You still book a timed ticket on annefrank.org, in the same Tuesday release, competing with everybody else. The card changes the price, not the queue.
The I amsterdam City Card is different again: it does not include the Anne Frank House at all. If a card, tour or package claims to include entry, treat that as a warning rather than a bargain.
Full 2026 prices as listed by the museum:
The museum is open every day of the week, from 9:00 to 22:00 Amsterdam time. There is no weekly closing day. The late evening slots are usually the last to be taken, so if the daytime is gone for your date it is worth looking at the end of the evening before giving up on the day.
The standard hours, and the six dates in the year that run shorter:
Opening hours only decide the shape of your day once you hold a ticket. Entry is by timed slot and nothing is sold at the door, so you cannot turn up inside opening hours and hope for a place. The dates the museum closes altogether, for Yom Kippur and for maintenance, are listed in the calculator above. Hours as published by the museum on annefrank.org.
If there is nothing available once you reach the booking page, don’t worry. Try refreshing the page.
Come back between 10.30 and 11 am. Tickets often become available as the queue clears. Do not give up at the first empty page. Often, people have tickets in their shopping cart and then don’t buy them, so they are returned to availability.
Ensure that you are on the English, not the Dutch page. This should have /en after the website. Or you can select the language in the top right corner. This is the correct link to the English language ticket site. https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/tickets/choose-your-ticket/
There are two release moments, not one, and most guides only mention the first.
The main release is every Tuesday at 10:00 Amsterdam time, for visits six weeks later. The second is a last-minute batch, also on a Tuesday at 10:00, covering the week that begins the following Monday. If you are visiting in the week of Monday 12 October, the last-minute release lands on Tuesday 6 October.
Nothing is released on the day itself and nothing is sold at the door. Sold-out days do occasionally reopen for a few minutes when an unpaid booking times out, so the half hour after either release is the moment worth refreshing. The live check at the top of this page tells you what the museum’s system is showing for your week right now.
There is no waiting list. Once a date sells out, no further tickets are released. These are the two reliable alternatives.
This is your best chance at still getting inside the house. When you book at least 7 weeks before your visit, we have a strong track record of securing Anne Frank House tickets as part of the tour (subject to the house being open on that date). If your required visit date is less than 7 weeks away, we have a high success rate in securing tickets, up to 13 days before the visit.
You also get a highly-rated, private guided walk through Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter and the story behind Anne Frank’s diary.
Book the private Anne Frank and Jewish History walking tour →
A small-group walking tour following part of Anne Frank’s final route through Amsterdam. Ending with an immersive Virtual Reality visit to the Secret Annex, as it was in 1942, including furniture. Many guests say that the furnished VR rooms give more insight than the empty rooms inside the actual house.
This tour is independent of the museum. Available daily. Bookable even at short notice.
The Anne Frank House is a seventeenth century canal house, and the museum route reflects that. By the museum’s own count you climb three steep staircases, come down three normal ones, pass two smaller staircases and step up over one high step of 39 cm. Some of the steep stairs have a handrail on both sides, some on only one. Seating exists only at the very beginning and the very end of the route.
The museum is direct about who this excludes. The historic section containing the Secret Annex is not accessible by wheelchair or other mobility aids, and the museum notes that the steep stairs and high steps may be a barrier for anyone who finds stairs difficult. Part of the modern section can be reached by lift with a staff member’s help.
The rooms in the Annex are small and can feel enclosed, particularly when the museum is busy. A visit takes about an hour, the audio tour is included in the price, and once you are inside nobody moves you along.
If the stairs are the obstacle rather than the ticket, we can bring the Secret Annex to you. With Virtual Reality you walk through the hiding place room by room, at your own pace, with nothing to climb.
We arrange this privately, shaped around what works for you:
Both work for wheelchair users and for anyone who finds stairs difficult, and both can be arranged for a single visitor or a family.
One thing to be clear about: these step-free formats are private arrangements only. Our shared small group tour finishes with the Virtual Reality section up one flight of stairs, and we cannot change that on a departure other people are booked on. So if stairs are a problem, book privately rather than joining the small group and hoping.
Full details, including how it works at your hotel or on a river cruise ship, are on our step-free Anne Frank experience, or tell us what you need and we will put something together.
They are the same place. The museum’s own name is the Anne Frank House, Anne Frank Huis in Dutch, at Prinsengracht 263-267. Plenty of people search for Anne Frank Museum tickets instead, and the calculator on this page works for either, because there is only one building and one ticket system.
What you visit is two things joined together. The first is the house itself: the canal house where Otto Frank had his business, and behind it the Secret Annex where the Frank family, the van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid for just over two years. The rooms are empty, at Otto Frank’s own wish, and you walk through them.
The second is the museum building next to the house, added later, holding the exhibitions, Anne’s original diary and the exit. One ticket covers both. The route takes you through the house first and the museum afterwards, so the house is not a separate visit or a separate ticket. It is the heart of the one you already have.
The Tuesday 10:00 release six weeks ahead has run throughout 2025 and 2026 and there is no sign of it changing. The calculator above already handles 2027, so you can check any date next year today.
What the museum has not published yet is 2027 pricing or its 2027 closing dates. We check the official ticket pages every week and update this page when they land, so the figures here are never more than a few days old.
Ticket rules, prices and closing dates on this page were last checked against annefrank.org on 30 August 2026. We check every week.
Tickets are one of several things worth timing before you fly. Our trip planning tools for the Netherlands cover the rest: when the flowers are out, what is on while you are here, and which museums are worth the trip.
Everything you need to know about buying Anne Frank House tickets online.
Tickets are released every Tuesday at 10 am Amsterdam time (CEST in summer, CET in winter) for visit dates six weeks later. Use this calculator to find the exact Tuesday and time for your visit date, converted to your local timezone.
The museum does not sell tickets earlier than six weeks before the visit date. If your visit is more than six weeks away, the calculator will show you the exact Tuesday and time to be online, and you can add it to your calendar so it will automatically remind you.
The Anne Frank House is a small 17th-century canal house with a very limited daily visitor capacity of around 1.2 million people per year. Demand from visitors across the world is much higher than supply. In peak season (April to August), morning slots often sell out in two to three minutes after the 10 am release.
No. The museum only sells tickets via annefrank.org. There are no walk-in tickets, no on-site sales, and no ticket resellers. Any website other than annefrank.org selling Anne Frank House tickets is unofficial.
No. The I Amsterdam City Card cannot be used for entry to the Anne Frank House. Tickets must be purchased separately through annefrank.org.
Tickets cost €16.50 for adults, €7 for visitors aged 10 to 17, and €1 for children under 10. All prices include a €1 booking fee. A 30-minute introductory programme is available for an additional €7 per ticket.
No. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. They are only valid on the specified date and time slot. If you cannot attend, there is no mechanism to exchange or return your ticket through the museum.
If the tickets sell out at 10 am, it is worth refreshing the page around 10:30 am, as small numbers of tickets reappear as the queue clears. There is no official waiting list.
There are two reliable options.
First, book a private Anne Frank and Jewish History walking tour with Amsterdam Experiences, where we help you to secure official tickets via the official channel as part of the tour. When booked 7 or more weeks ahead of the time of visit, we have a high success rate of securing tickets.
Second, join Anne Frank walking tour: the Last Walk and Secret Annex VR: a guided walk through Anne Frank’s Amsterdam ending with an immersive Virtual Reality visit to the fully furnished Secret Annex. Independent of the museum and available daily. Last-minute slots are often available.
Yes. For many visitors the surrounding neighbourhood is itself a meaningful experience. A guided walk with access to the Secret Annex in Virtual Reality actually shows you spaces and furniture that the real museum no longer has. This is because the rooms inside the house are kept empty out of respect for Otto Frank’s wishes. Many guests tell us the VR experience gives more insight into the family’s hidden life than the empty rooms inside the building.
No. There are no skip-the-line tickets for the Anne Frank House. Every ticket has a timed entry slot, which reduces queues.
Yes. By the museum’s own count the route has three steep staircases up, three normal ones down, two smaller staircases and one high step of 39 cm. The historic section with the Secret Annex is not accessible by wheelchair or other mobility aids, and the museum notes the stairs may be a barrier for anyone who finds them difficult. If stairs are the problem, we can arrange a private Virtual Reality alternative at ground level. Contact us for the options.
Museumkaart holders pay €1, which is the online booking fee rather than an admission price. ICOM, Stadspas and VriendenLoterij VIP holders pay the same. You still have to book a timed ticket in the normal Tuesday release like everyone else, so the card changes the price, not the queue.
Yes, it is one place at Prinsengracht 263-267. One ticket covers both the canal house with the Secret Annex behind it and the museum building next to it, where the exhibitions and Anne’s original diary are. The route takes you through the house first and the museum afterwards.