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Contact

Address

The Anton Pannekoek Institute can be reached at (postal address):

How to find us

Our visitor address is:

You can recognise the faculty building by the two domes on top; the institute is located right under the domes. The building is also the largest building in the Science Park. Walk under the building between the pillars into the central area to find the main entrance.

If you are visiting, please present yourself at the reception on the ground floor in the central hall (hopefully, someone has notified the reception about your arrival in advance). Please state who you are visiting and you will be given an access card for the building (you may be asked some information and possibly an identification; this is for visitors to remind them to return the access card when leaving).

Take the lift to the fourth floor, and exit the lift towards the hallway. Then turn left and pass along the vide. You should now find yourself at the institute (see map). The secretariat is two further turns to the left, around the vide, then the first office on your right.

Public transport

From Amsterdam Centraal station

If you are coming from Amsterdam Centraal station, the best option is to take the train to Amsterdam Science Park station, and follow the directions as above. Trains to the Science Park leave at 18 and 48 minutes past the hour.

When exiting the Science Park station, turn left into the tunnel. Once through the tunnel, you'll find yourself in the Science Park, and probably can spot the API domes towards the right of your front. The science faculty building is the largest building in the Science Park.

From Schiphol Airport

At Schiphol, buy a ticket for Amsterdam Science Park station. Take the train to Amsterdam Centraal station, and follow directions as above.

Other options

If Amsterdam Amstel station is more convenient for you to reach (there are direct trains from Utrecht to Amsterdam Amstel, and the metro stops there as well), take bus 40 from Amsterdam Amstel station (every fifteen minutes) and get out at bus stop Science Park (some ten minutes from the station). The bus may go around the building first before stopping here, but there are bus stops at either side of the building.

Other options consist of taking bus 40 from Muiderpoort station to Amsterdam Amstel in the opposite direction, or taking tram line 9 and exiting at stop "Kruislaan". From there you can walk or catch bus 40 again.

General

Public transport in Amsterdam is generally very good: trams, metro, buses and train will get you to most places. Amsterdam is using the so-called "OV-card", which you can buy at the small book kiosks and the public transport vending machines (not the "NS" railway ones, but the "GVB" ones). Some card types are rechargable if you want to use it more than once. You swipe the card when entering and exiting public transport, the cost will automatically be deducted from the card. For more information see "how to use the OV-chipcard".

links:

• Webpages of the Amsterdam public transport company (GVB), in English
• Map of tram, bus & metro (PDF, external link).
• Bus 40, overview of times (Monday to Friday): Amstel station to Muiderpoort station, Muiderpoort station to Amstel station or the PDF for the complete schedule both ways (external links).

By car

Get on the A10, the Amsterdam ring road, towards the easterly part (direction "Utrecht/Den Haag" if coming from Amersfoort; direction "Amersfoort" from other directions). Find exit S113-Watergraafsmeer.

At the end of the exit, follow the signs for Watergraafsmeer/Science Park (turn right coming from the east, turn left coming from Utrecht/Schiphol), onto the Middenweg.
After about half a kilometer, turn right onto the Kruislaan at the traffic lights; at the end of the Kruislaan, you pass under a long railway bridge, and you are in the Science Park (noticable by the various offices). Once there you should at some point see the API domes. Circle around the building until you find a parking place; parking at the Science Park is not free.

More information

Some more information is available on the Science Park website.

Maps

Local map of the Science Park

Local map of the Anton Pannkoek Institute:

Click here for a pdf version of this map.