Oud-Zuid

Oud-Zuid is one of the three areas of the Zuid district. It had 43,905 residents on 1 January 2026 and is made up of six neighbourhoods: the Museumkwartier, Willemspark, Schinkelbuurt, Hoofddorppleinbuurt, Apollobuurt and Stadionbuurt.

Around 1900, grand townhouses and apartment buildings rose around Museumplein and the Concertgebouw. Further south, architect H.P. Berlage's Plan Zuid, approved in 1917, set out broad traffic avenues and lanes with narrower residential streets between them, which were built up in the following decades.

Oud-Zuid has some of Amsterdam's most important cultural institutions and some of its most spacious residential streets.

• Museumplein: the Rijksmuseum (opened 1885), the Stedelijk Museum (1895) and the Van Gogh Museum (main building 1973), with the Concertgebouw concert hall (1888) at the southern end.
• Sport: the Olympic Stadium, built in 1926–1928 for the 1928 Olympic Games, and the Zuiderbad public swimming pool, open since 1912.
• Residential character: the Apollobuurt, Museumkwartier and Willemspark are spacious and affluent, while parts of the Schinkelbuurt and Hoofddorppleinbuurt have smaller homes.
• The southern part of the Vondelpark lies within the area.

• Trams: 2 (Museumplein and Hoofddorpplein, to Centraal Station via the Leidsestraat and west to Nieuw Sloten), 5 (Museumplein, Concertgebouw, Roelof Hartplein and Stadionweg to Station Zuid and Amstelveen, and north via Leidseplein and the Marnixstraat to the Westergasfabriek), 12 (Van Baerlestraat to De Pijp and Amstelstation, and north to the Bilderdijkstraat), 24 (Centraal Station via Leidseplein and Museumplein to VU medisch centrum) and 25 (Beethovenstraat to Station Zuid, Amstelveen and Uithoorn, and via De Pijp to Muiderpoortstation). Tram 13 currently ends at the Zeilstraat in Willemspark during roadworks elsewhere.
• Metro: Amstelveenseweg (lines 50 and 51) on the western edge and Station Zuid (50, 51 and 52) to the south.
• Train: Station Zuid has intercity and regional services.

Line 3 was discontinued on 29 March 2026 and line 24 rerouted, so check the GVB or 9292 planner for current routes.

Housing is mostly apartments: large late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century flats and townhouses around Museumplein and in Willemspark, and the brick blocks of Plan Zuid further south, with smaller flats in parts of the Schinkelbuurt and Hoofddorppleinbuurt.

Oud-Zuid is among the most expensive parts of Amsterdam. There is no official rent figure for the area alone; according to I amsterdam, Amsterdam rents are among the highest in the Netherlands and most newcomers rent privately. Check whether a rent falls under the points system before you sign (see our tenant rights guide).

The Vondelpark is on the doorstep, and Museumplein offers open space. The Zuiderbad is a public swimming pool, and the Beatrixpark and Amsterdamse Bos are within cycling distance further south.

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