ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo

How can you visit ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo with your City Card?

You do not need to make a reservation in advance to visit ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo with your City Card. You can have your City Card scanned at the entrance. Make sure your City Card is valid at the time of your visit.

Visit safely

People can have a relaxing, safe and educational visit to the park. ARTIS expressly requests visitors not to come by car, but by bicycle, on foot or by public transport.

Christmas tips

1. New habitat: Mini Madagascar: Where lions once lived, ring-tailed lemurs, red ruffed lemurs and Madagascar radiated tortoises now roam the landscape. Discover the renewed Kerbert Terrace during your walk through ARTIS.
2. Elephant calves: Did you know that two elephant calves are on the way? Who knows—the first calf might even be born during the Christmas holidays!
3. Darkness trail & children’s workshop: This winter focuses on the theme of darkness. Go on an adventure with a special trail developed in collaboration with Quest Junior, where you’ll learn about the day and night rhythms of animals and plants.
4. Winter guided tour: Join the guide and discover how animals and plants adapt to the short winter days.

The story of ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo

Visit the oldest zoo with the whole family in every season. Step into Madagascar at the renewed Kerbert Terrace (the former lion enclosure) and admire how ring-tailed lemurs, red ruffed lemurs and Madagascar radiated tortoises live together. Then see how reticulated giraffes, mhorr gazelles and kudus meet on the Savanna. Surround yourself with hundreds of fluttering butterflies in the Butterfly Pavilion and take a break in one of the vegetarian restaurants. Learn all about African penguins or climb the challenging rock trail and admire the jaguars up close. Discover newborn animals, come face to face with the lions, and see the Asian small-clawed otters and the red panda in their new enclosure. And when your day comes to an end, take a journey through space in the Planetarium.

Experience nature and discover its meaning for our society. Because greater awareness of nature leads to greater respect for all living things.