The museum is split into two parts: the house where Rembrandt lived, reconstructed to look as it did back then, and an art gallery.

The art gallery would get four stars from me. It is a nice collection, lovingly curated and nicely spaced, with relevant background information about the paintings. The gimmicky "step into the painting" exhibits are not for everyone, but you can ignore them at your leisure.

The Rembrandt house itself gets two stars from me, sadly leading to an average of three ... The house itself is nice, albeit nothing special. The big but (and I cannot lie): there are no signs in the house whatsoever. You are offered detailed background information on all the rooms with very interesting facts, but they are available EXCLUSIVELY as a terrible audio tour. To get to the interesting bits, instead of spending five minutes reading a plaque (or even a pamphlet), you need to stand around stupidly for twenty minutes in every room waiting for the narrator to finish their monotonous ramblings, not to mention that they take pauses of up to ten seconds between sentences, always prompting you to check whether the weird smartphone they gave you is broken. Nope, the audio file is still running, they are just having a coffee break. There is no option to speed up the audio either, leaving you mostly twiddling your thumbs and looking awkwardly at other guests sharing your ennui in eerie silence. To even listen to the audio, you have to navigate through a series of menus designed with the loving care of a wrecking ball, not to mention carry a brick of a smartphone with you that heats to disconcerting levels during the tour.

Had they spent about 5% as much money as they clearly sunk into the audio tour on some flyer instead, the entire experience would have been rather enjoyable. The audio tour is great for vision-impaired visitors (though they will still dearly miss the speed up button), but for me, it was just an ordeal and led to me skipping most of the files.

To end on a positive note, if you go here, do make sure that you visit the top story of the house between 11am and 4pm to catch the etching demonstration. Not only does the guide who does it speak six languages, he is one of the most entertaining and witty museum guides I have ever encountered. The demonstration takes about ten minutes and is incredibly interesting and in itself worth the tickets. Make sure to wait for it, since only fifteen people fit in the room!