Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum

If you can squeeze it in too, don’t miss the Dutch Resistance Museum. We thought it helped put the Anne Frank story in clearer perspective and was extremely interesting.

I hope I can put your worries at ease. The Van Gogh museum won’t sell out 6 weeks in advance and if you have 5 days, you will definitely be able to book a time slot for the Anne Frank house. The Rijksmuseum doesn’t usually sell out at all, but in April there is the special once in a lifetime Vermeer exhibit so things are different.

If I were you I would do the following;
Buy your tickets for the Van Gogh museum and Rijksmuseum now. Schedule to visit each museum on a separate day and pick one of the earliest available time slots. Make sure to book your time slot for the Vermeer exhibit, not for the rest of the museum. Your ticket to the Vermeer exhibit allows you to visit the rest of the museum afterwards. But if you’ve only bought a ticket for the museum, without the Vermeer supplement, you can’t visit the exhibit.
Buy your tickets here; https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/vermeer

Buy your tickets for the Anne Frank house as soon as they become available. The Anne Frank house is open until much later than both other museums; every day from 9 am till 10 pm. If you make sure to log on as soon as tickets become available, you should be able to get tickets. If the website of the Anne Frank house is too busy, you will be put in a virtual queue. Sometimes the website shows a message to those in the queue that tickets are sold out. Please ignore this message and continue to stay in the virtual queue until it’s your time to buy the tickets.

With regards to the resistance museum mentioned by the previous poster; it has recently reopened after major renovations. As soon as it opened there has been much controversy about the new exhibit. I haven’t visited the new museum myself yet. Until I do, I don’t feel comfortable to say anything about it. So I’m neither recommending nor discouraging a visit.

I indeed meant to write can’t. I’ve edited my post. Thanks!

I don’t think you’ll have any problems. I would go ahead and book the other 2 museums (personally would do same day since they’re so close to each other- but depends on how much you enjoy art museums and how long you visit…) as those are prioritizes for you.

To the OP. It's pretty easy to tell these days - when you go to buy tickets on the Rijksmuseum site, it asks you whether you want the Vermeer exhibition or just the regular museum.

Thank you so much to all of the thoughtful inputs (especially "Dutch Traveller"!). I've posted once before about this trip and similar to this time, received many helpful (and enocuraging) comments. This Rick Steves Travel Forum is simply the best!