Lakenhal - Municipal Museum of Leiden

H. Bolten-Rempt
Fax.: +31-(0)71-5134489

Info Telefon: +31-(0)71-5165360
Besucher-Email: postbus@lakenhal.nl
http://www.lakenhal.nl/...

Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 5 pm; weekends and holidays noon - 5 pm; October 3; 10 am - noon.

"The museum of Dutch urban culture from the 16th century to the present is housed in Lakenhal, the former clothmakers' hall built in 1640 by Arent van 's Gravensande. A series of 16th-century paintings by Isaac van Swanenburgh depicting the various stages of the wool production process is supplemented by a loom, sample books, scissors, stamps, etc. Events from Leiden's history are also depicted, such as the siege of the city and its relief on 3 October 1574. The collection contains Leiden silver, engraved glass, pewter, tiles and paintings by 16th-century Leiden artists. The 17th century is represented by the young Rembrandt, Lievens, David Bailly, Jan Steen, Gerard Dou and the Leiden 'Precise School'. The 18th century is presented in rooms furnished in the style of the period. The 19th-and 20th-century collection contains work by Bakker, Korff, Jan Toorop, H.P. Bremmer, Floris Vester, Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Valk, Theo van Doesburg and early examples of 'De Stijl'. Works from the contemporary collection are exhibited every summer." (museum.nl)
 

National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine (Boerhaave Museum)

Info Telefon: +31-(0)71-5214224
Besucher-Email: informatie@museumboerhaave.nl
http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/...

Tuesday-Sundays 10 – 17h.
Also open on Mondays 10 – 17h during school holidays.
Closed on January 1, October 3 and December 25.

The historic building in which the Boerhaave Museum is located was originally the nunnery of St Caecilia dating from the early 15th century. Shortly before 1600 it was converted into a ''plaque hospital and madhouse''. In 1635 it became an University hospital. It was here, around 1720, that Herman Boerhaave gave his famous sickbed lessons that drew medical students to Leiden from around the world. The building is used as a museum since 1991.
As the national treasury of scientific endeavours, the museum shows some 400 years of advances in knowledge. Developments in the various sciences can be viewed in 24 rooms on two levels. The emphasis is on contributions from the Netherlands.
 

Naturalis - National Museum of Natural History

Fax.: +31-(0)71 5687666

Info Telefon: +31-(0)71 5687600
Besucher-Email: naturalis@naturalis.nl
http://www.naturalis.nl/...

Naturalis National Natural History Museum Foundation

Tuesday-Friday 10 am - 5 pm, Saturday-Sunday 10 am - 6 pm.
During school vacations and on public holidays: Monday-Sunday 10 am - 6 pm.
Closed 25 December and 1 January.

The collection comprises more than 11 million objects. It dates back to the 18th century and ranges from specimens collected during the voyages of Captain Cook in the South Pacific and Von Siebold and Bürger in Japan to marine and terrestrial collections from expeditions to South-East Asia as recent as 2005.
The work of many reknown scientists over a period of nearly 200 years, describing new species from all over the world, explains the large number of type specimens, involving vertebrate, invertebrate, entomological as well as paleontological objects.
 

Dutch Literary Museum

Fax.: 0703477941

Info Telefon: 0703471114

Historical Museum of The Hague

Fax.: +31-(0)70-3646942

Info Telefon: +31-(0)70-3646940
Besucher-Email: info@haagshistorischmuseum.nl
http://www.haagshistorischmuseum.nl/...

Tuesday – Friday 10.00-17.00h. Saturday & Sunday and national holidays 12.00-17.00h.
On December 31 the museum closes at 16.00h.
The museum is closed on New Year’s Day, Prinsjesdag and Christmas Day.

The museum is housed in the former archery house of St. Sebastian’s guild and dates from 1636. It is built on the spot of a gatehouse that was used by the civic guard. The exhibition covers the period from the Eighty Years’ War to the 20th century. Dutch history is brought to life by a wealth of interesting objects, including Van Oldenbarnevelt’s walking stick, treasures from the Silver Fleet, the first Dutch kilogram and Willem Drees’s desk.
 

The Mauritshuis

Fax.: +31-(0)70-3653819

Info Telefon: +31-(0)70-3023456
Besucher-Email: communicatie@mauritshuis.nl
http://www.mauritshuis.nl...

Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 - 17.00 h
Sundays and holidays 11.00 - 17.00 h
Closed on Mondays, 25 December and 1 January.
1 April – 1 September: also open on Monday.

The Mauritshuis, a unique 17th-century palace, is one of the most beautiful examples of Dutch classicist architecture. In 1820 the Dutch state bought the Mauritshuis for the purpose of housing the Royal Cabinet of Paintings. The oldest part of the collection consists of the paintings owned in the 18th century by the stadholder, Prince Willem V of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806). In 1815 his son, King Willem I (1772-1843), handed over these paintings to the Dutch state, thus providing the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings, now called the Royal Picture Gallery. The oldest museum of the Netherlands opened its doors in 1822. At first the building also housed the Royal Cabinet of Rarities, another collection that had been owned by the stadholders. Only in 1875 did the entire Mauritshuis become available for the collection of paintings. The collection currently consists of some 800 paintings, 50 miniatures, 20 pieces of sculpture, and a few drawings and prints.
Picture © Mauritshuis (Johannes Vermeer, Meisje met de parel, ca. 1665).
 

Museum Bredius

Fax.: +31-(0)70-3639978

Info Telefon: +31-(0)70-3620729
Besucher-Email: info@museumbredius.nl
http://www.museumbredius.nl/...

Stichting Bredius Genootschap

Tuesday-Sunday 12.00-17.00. Closed January 1st + December 25th. Open Mondays only on Christian holidays.

Abraham Bredius ( 1855-1946) became known mainly as a Rembrandt expert, a collector, director of the Royal Picture Gallery ''Mauritshuis'' in The Hague and as a scientific investigator of historical archives. Even at a very advanced age, Bredius was still consulted on the attribution of paintings.
In 1922 Bredius moved to Monaco. He sold his house at Prinsegracht to the municipality of The Hague, giving his collection to them on loan. At his death in 1946 it turned out that he had bequeathed all of his loans to the Mauritshuis and his private collection, mainly consisting of paintings, drawings, porcelain and silver objects to the city of The Hague.
 

Prison Gate Museum

Info Telefon: +31-(0)70-3460861
Besucher-Email: info@gevangenpoort.nl
http://www.gevangenpoort.nl/...

We would like to inform you of the temporary closure of the museum due to renovations. A renovated Gevangenpoort will reopen in the autumn of 2009. If you want to find out how the work is progressing, please visit our website: www.gevangenpoort.nl (Kind information by Marije Taat).



The Prison Gate can only be visited in a guided tour. Tours start on the hour. The last tour starts at 16.00 hrs.
Tuesday - Friday: 10.00 hrs to 17.00 hrs.
Saturday - Sunday: 12.00 hrs to 17.00 hrs.
Closed on Mondays and on December 25 and 26st.

The Prison Gate is the former prison of the Court of Holland, from which the last prisoner was released at the beginning of the 19th century. Only for offences against the sovereign one could end up in the Prison Gate. By looking around the building and its unique collection of instruments for torture and punishment and listening to the stories about the prisoners and their crimes the visitor learns about Dutch legal history.

 

Escher in the Palace

Tel.: +31-(0)70 427 77 29
Fax.: +31-(0)70 427 77 31

Info Telefon: +31-(0)70 427 77 30
Besucher-Email: bbreeuwsma@escherinhetpaleis.nl
http://www.escherinhetpaleis.nl/...

Tuesday to Sunday 11.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m.
Closed on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and September 18th, 2007.

Escher in the Palace is dedicated to the work of Holland's most famous graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). Nearly all his prints as well as sketches and archive material are displayed in varying exhibitions spread over four floors of the building. You can observe the change from the real world to the constructed worlds he gave us. Visual illusion is a key word in his work. In Eschers Room you'll become a visual illusion yourself by changing your own proportions: a virtual reality programme gives you a feeling of being inside Escher's world.
The former Palace has been bought by Queen Emma, the great-grandmother of Queen Beatrix. Emma lived there until 1891, and after that Queen Wilhelmina. Queen Juliana and Queen Beatrix held their official receptions at the palace.
M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art B.V., P.O. Box 101, 3740 AC Baarn, The Netherlands.
 

Stroom Den Haag

Fax.: +31-(0)70 3617962

Info Telefon: +31-(0)70-3658985
Besucher-Email: info@stroom.nl
http://www.stroom.nl/...

Office Hogewal 1-9: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Exhibition space Hogewal 1-9: Wednesday-Sunday, 12:00 - 5:00 pm.
Exhibition space Toussaintkade 55: October-March, Wednesday-Sunday, 12:00 - 5:00 pm.

Stroom Den Haag, an independent foundation founded in 1989, is an active center for visual arts and architecture. Stroom has an active policy for artists from The Hague and also initiates a large number of (international) activities in the fields of visual arts, art in public space, architecture and design, in the broadest sense of the word.
Photography © Stroom Den Haag.