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Kasteel KeukenhofKeukenhof Castle in the South Holland town of Lisse was originally built in 1642 as a classicist country house by Adriaen Maertensz. Block , a former commander of the VOC in the Moluccas. The castle has an important collection of furniture and portraits, including by Nicolaes Maes . The Chinese and Japanese porcelain is arranged in a 17th-century fashion in a unique and purpose-built cabinet, with an exuberant fireplace in the style of Daniël Marot .
Space ExpoSpace Expo is the official visitor center of ESTEC, the European Space Agency's development and testing center. During weekends and holidays you can take part in the Space Train, an hour-long tour of the development and test spaces in the ESTEC building.
Molen De ValkMolen De Valk is a scaffolding mill and museum on the Lammermarkt in the Dutch city of Leiden. The current stone scaffolding mill is the third mill that has stood on this site. In 1611 the post mill "De Valck" was built on the Valkenburger stronghold. Since 2 June 1966, the mill has been in use as a municipal mill museum. De Valk has been milling again since 2000. As of 1 June 2013, the Molenmuseum De Valk is part of Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken .
Museum De LakenhalMuseum De Lakenhal is the city museum of fine art and history in Leiden, Netherlands. One highlight is its collection of fijnschilder paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. The broad collection ranges from early works by Rembrandt van Rijn and Lucas van Leyden's Last Judgement to modern classics of De Stijl and artworks created by contemporary artists such as Claudy Jongstra, Atelier van Lieshout and many others.
National Museum of EthnologyMuseum Volkenkunde has been a Dutch national museum in Leiden since 1837 . In 1937 it was established in a monumental building complex on the edge of the city center. Before that it served as a teaching hospital. Since 2013, the museum has been part of the National Museum of World Cultures. The collection includes many artifacts from Africa , Greenland , China , Indonesia , Japan , Korea , Latin America , North America , Oceania , Southwest, South, Central and Southeast Asia .
Rijksmuseum BoerhaaveRijksmuseum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, Netherlands.The museum hosts a collection of historical scientific instruments from all disciplines, but mainly from medicine, physics, and astronomy. The museum is located in a building that was originally a convent in central Leiden.
Naturalis Biodiversity CenterNaturalis Biodiversity Center is a research institute and natural history museum in the South Holland city of Leiden . Naturalis, the Netherlands Center for Biodiversity was created from a merger between the Zoological Museum Amsterdam , the National Herbarium of the Netherlands and the Natural History Museum Naturalis.
CorpusThe Corpus Museum is a human biology interactive museum, located near Oegstgeest in the Netherlands.Billed as "a journey through the human body", the museum provides both education and entertainment through a combination of permanent and variable collections.Opened in 2008 by Queen Beatrix, the museum is the world's first museum of its type.
Burcht van LeidenLeiden Castle is one of the oldest surviving examples of a castle in the Netherlands. The building is located in the middle of Leiden , where the two arms of the Rhine converge. The circular structure is located on a motte , an artificial mound, and can be entered through a sandstone gate.
Japan Museum SieboldHuisJapanmuseum SieboldHuis, is a museum on the Rapenburg in the Dutch city of Leiden . The museum displays objects that Philipp Franz von Siebold collected between 1823 and 1829 during his stay on Deshima , the Dutch trading settlement near Nagasaki in Japan . It also acts as a museum of Japanese culture.The SieboldHuis has a permanent exhibition of maps, rocks, animals and plants, utensils and art. In addition, changing exhibitions offer a varied program of Japanese art.
National Museum of AntiquitiesThis is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology.
CM.com Circuit ZandvoortCircuit Zandvoort, known for sponsorship reasons as CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, and previously known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017, is a 4.259 km motorsport race track located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line. It returned to the Formula One calendar in 2021 as the location of the revived Dutch Grand Prix.
Hortus Botanicus LeidenThe Hortus Botanicus Leiden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in the Netherlands and was founded in 1590 at the Rapenburg in Leiden and owned by the university.The greenhouses with Victoria amazonica and other tropical plants, and the large collection of sub-tropical plants in the recently renovated Orangery and the new Winter Garden draw many visitors. The park itself is an oasis inside the old city, with many more interesting plants and trees.
Frans Hals MuseumA majestic museum, which was established in 1862. In 1950, the museum was split in two locations when the collection of modern art was moved to the Museum De Hallen. The main collection, including its famous 17th-century Frans Hals paintings, for which the museum is named, is located in the former Oude Mannenhuis on the Groot Heiligland.
St.-BavokerkA Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square (Grote Markt) in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem church called the Cathedral of Saint Bavo now serves as the main cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam.
Teylers MuseumTeylers Museum is the first and oldest museum in the Netherlands. The historic centre of the museum is the neoclassical Oval Room, which was built behind the house of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, the so-called Fundatiehuis. Pieter Teyler was a wealthy cloth merchant and banker of Scottish descent, who bequeathed his fortune for the advancement of religion, art, and science. He was a Mennonite and follower of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Steam Train Katwijk LeidenThe Steam Train Katwijk Leiden is a narrow-gauge railway around Lake Valkenburg in Valkenburg , a district of Katwijk in South Holland. The museum is normally open on weekends from Easter weekend to the end of October. On these days, the steam train usually leaves at 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Historical locomotives are used with passenger cars or lorries that were built in-house in the 1980s.
Windmill De Adriaan (1779)Windmill De Adriaan is a 18th-century riverside windmill with scenic views, an educational museum & guided tours. Zandvoort, Netherlands. Although it looks very old, the present structure is actually a replica of the original mill, built in 1778 on the foundations of an ancient defensive tower by Adriaan de Boois. Originally the mill ground tufa – a type of limestone – to trass, which was used for cement and paint. It also milled seashells and oak bark.
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KeukenhofThis is a famous tulip garden and one of the world's largest flower gardens, situated in the municipality of Lisse, in the Netherlands. It covers an area of 32 hectares and approximately 7 million flower bulbs are planted in the gardens annually. This garden also features numerous other flowers, including hyacinths, daffodils, lilies, roses, carnations and irises.