While many young people visit Amsterdam for the marijuana scene — and perhaps to peek at the
legal prostitutes in the Red Light District — the city is teeming with high
culture, from the world - class art in the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseumn to P.C. Hooftstraat, the shopping street where you can find plenty of the
contemporary, cutting - edge design that has become a source of pride in Amsterdam and the Netherlands.