Rembrandt van Rijn bought the house on Jodenbreestraat in 1639, at the peak of his fame. The ground floor was his art dealership, the middle floor his studio, and the top floor where he trained pupils. It was here that he completed The Night Watch, the monumental group portrait of Amsterdam's most powerful men. Three years later, his wife Saskia died of tuberculosis, aged twenty-nine. Scandal followed, then bankruptcy. By 1658, he'd sold everything, house included, and moved to smaller rooms near the Westerkerk. He died there in 1669, penniless.

The house reopened as a museum in 1906, on what would have been his 300th birthday, restored using a bankruptcy inventory that listed every object inside. VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace Rembrandt's rise and ruin through the streets of the old Jewish quarter, connecting the house to the guild halls, anatomy theatres and canal-side commissions that shaped his career.